On 07:01, NeilBrown wrote: > > Wrong lesson. The correct lesson to gather from this is to prefer > > version 1.1 or 1.2 superblocks wherever possible. Superblocks at the > > beginning of the device disappear when there is no partition table, > > superblocks at the end can be confused for superblocks belonging to > > the whole device when there is no partition table. > > 1.0 also protects from this problem. The 1.x metadata stores the > offset of the superblock from the start of the device. That will appear > to be wrong if you find a partition-superblock when reading from a > whole-device, so mdadm will reject the device as not having a valid > superblock. BTW: Why are new arrays still created with 0.90 metadata format by default? Andre -- The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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