Hi, I've some questions on the Linux software raid. I have assembled a raid1 array with 2 external disks and what we want is to mount those disks in Linux (using raid), in Windows (using a read-only mount of only one disk) and in a Linux without the raid support (also with a read-only mount). I remember that it was possible when I've used the raid tools but today it seems to be impossible, the Windows don't recognize the partition and Linux answer that he can't mount a linux_raid_member partition when I choose to mount only one of the devices (in read-only mode). Before it was possible to mount the discs independently or using the raidtools. How can I make this operations? It's a problem in the superblock? I remember that normally the superblock is at the end of the partition so he don't interfere with the using of the filesystem by an OS that don't known Linux Raid Arrays but the error of the Linux itself and the non recognition by Windows let me suppose that now the mdadm create the superblock at the beginning of the filesystem. There is a method to move the superblock at the end and leave the system compatible with both OS? There is a method to access only one disk from a Linux that don't known raid arrays? Why the implementation (that worked very well) has been changed to block the easy use of the Linux Raid partitions (that was the real improvement over all other raid solutions)? We seriously think to remove the mdadm tool and recompile the old version of the raidtool that worked better than mdadm but I don't known if the new kernels supports it. Thank-you. Leopoldo Ghielmetti - 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
