Which is the default type of superblock? 0.90 or 1.0? On 10/30/07, Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Friday October 26, gcormier@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Can someone help me understand superblocks and MD a little bit? > > > > I've got a raid5 array with 3 disks - sdb1, sdc1, sdd1. > > > > --examine on these 3 drives shows correct information. > > > > > > However, if I also examine the raw disk devices, sdb and sdd, they > > also appear to have superblocks with some semi valid looking > > information. sdc has no superblock. > > If a partition starts a multiple of 64K from the start of the device, > and ends with about 64K of the end of the device, then a superblock on > the partition will also look like a superblock on the whole device. > This is one of the shortcomings of v0.90 superblocks. v1.0 doesn't > have this problem. > > > > > How can I clear these? If I unmount my raid, stop md0, it won't clear it. > > mdadm --zero-superblock device name > > is the best way to remove an unwanted superblock. Ofcourse in the > above described case, removing the unwanted superblock will remove the > wanted one aswell. > > > > > > [root@zeus ~]# mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/hdd > > mdadm: Couldn't open /dev/hdd for write - not zeroing > > As I think someone else pointed out "/dev/hdd" is not "/dev/sdd". > > NeilBrown > - 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
