Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:05 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: [] >>> Got it, so for RAID1 it would make sense if LILO supported it (the >>> later versions of the md superblock) >> >> Lilo doesn't know anything about the superblock format, however, lilo >> expects the raid1 device to start at the beginning of the physical >> partition. In otherwords, format 1.0 would work with lilo. > Did not work when I tried 1.x with LILO, switched back to 00.90.03 and > it worked fine. There are different 1.x - and the difference is exactly this -- location of the superblock. In 1.0, superblock is located at the end, just like with 0.90, and lilo works just fine with it. It gets confused somehow (however I don't see how really, because it uses bmap() to get a list of physical blocks for the files it wants to access - those should be in absolute numbers, regardless of the superblock locaction) when the superblock is at the beginning (v 1.1 or 1.2). /mjt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
