On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > In fact, no you can't. I know, because I've created a device that had > both but wasn't a raid device. And it's matching partner still existed > too. What you are talking about would have misrecognized this > situation, guaranteed. Maybe we need a 2.0 superblock that contains the physical size of every component, not just the logical size that is used for RAID. That way if the size read from the superblock does not match the size of the device, you know that this device should be ignored. Gabor -- --------------------------------------------------------- MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences --------------------------------------------------------- - 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