WAT?! How can I mount an unpartitioned/unformatted array? This is more direct than using a filesystem, although there would be no journalling, right? If I were to mount my small disk for / and the unpartitioned array as /home for example.
Seems like journalling/crash recovery is pretty vital. Could not partitioning be recommendable?
--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Partitions are not needed at all unless your underlying
> topology requires
> it:
>
> `mdadm --create --raid-devices=2 --metadata=1.0 --chunk=128
> --level=1
> /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb`
>
> Will work just fine. You can also
> use LVM with raw disks. Both
> systems simply stitch together storage units provided by
> the drive
> subsystem, so any block device found in /dev can be
> used. Once the array is
> assembled, it is not necessary to partition it, either,
> again unless your
> overlaying topology requires it. On my systems, the
> boot drives are
> partitioned to allow booting into Windows if necessary, and
> usually the swap
> is also in a partition on the boot drive, but my arrays are
> completely
> un-partitioned.
>
>
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