Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats?

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On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 10:00 +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 11:54 +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 09:11:57AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> >> just apply some rules, so if you find a partition table _AND_ an md
> >> superblock at the end, read both and you can tell if it is an md on a
> >> partition or a partitioned md raid1 device.
> >
> >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.
> then just ignore the device and log a warning, instead of doing a random
> choice.
> L.

It also happened to be my OS drive pair.  Ignoring it would have
rendered the machine unusable.

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