Hi.... I am hopeful that the group could provide me with some advice regarding limiting the drive size on a RAID0. I know and use the –z option for other raid levels, but this seems to have no effect on RAID0. I am sure many will ask ‘why bother’ or ‘use fdisk’ but the problem is: We need to have some preserved information on each drive – can be only a few MB at the end of the drive for example In the past we have simply used Fdisk to partition, save our data on Sdx2 and used Mdadm on Sdx1 (which works fine) But we are looking to move to dual channel SAS drives and use DM MPIO DM MPIO works fine also, but not on the partitions, only the whole drive. So when we MDadm DMx it overwrites the SdX2 partition etc. The answer was that we used the –z and limited the drive size and simply used DD to write our data to the end LBA’s.... But on RAID0 the –z does not seem to function, so I cant think of a way around this (other than changing the LBA range in the drive and this is restricted I think) Does anyone have any ideas? I appreciate any help -- 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
