On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:01:43PM +0100, Mattias Wadenstein wrote: > From that setup it seems simple, scrap the partition table and use the disk > device for raid. This is what we do for all data storage disks (hw raid) > and sw raid members. And _exactly_ that's when you run into the alignment problem. The common SW RAID case (first partitioning, then building RAID arrays from individual partitions) does not suffer from this issue. 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