Justin Piszcz wrote:
Or is there a better way to do this, does parted handle this situation
better?
What is the best (and correct) way to calculate stripe-alignment on the
RAID5 device itself?
Does this also apply to Linux/SW RAID5? Or are there any caveats that
are not taken into account since it is based in SW vs. HW?
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In case of SW or HW raid, when you place raid aware filesystem directly on
it, I don't see any potential poblems
Also, if md's superblock version/placement actually mattered, it'd be pretty
strange. The space available for actual use - be it partitions or filesystem
directly - should be always nicely aligned. I don't know that for sure though.
If you use SW partitionable raid, or HW raid with partitions, then you would
have to align it on a chunk boundary manually. Any selfrespecting os
shouldn't complain a partition doesn't start on cylinder boundary these
days. LVM can complicate life a bit too - if you want it's volumes to be
chunk-aligned.
With NTFS the problem is, that it's not aware of underlaying raid in any
way. It starts with 16 sectors long boot sector, somewhat compatible with
ancient FAT. My blind guess would be to try to align the very first sector
of $Mft with your chunk. Also, mentioned bootsector is also referenced as
$Boot, thus I don't know if large cluster won't automatically extend it to
full cluster size. Experiment, YMMV :)
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