> 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. What's he's saying is that RAID and LVM do not need partitions to work properly. You can create a raid array on the raw(unpartitioned) /dev/sdX devices and then create a LVM volume group using a physical volume(PV) on a raw(unpartitioned) /dev/mdX (RAID) device. The filesystem still needs a partition/volume but that can created either by partitioning /dev/mdX *or* creating a logical volume in LVM. For example, on my system at home I use RAID-6 created using /dev/sd[b-f]. The resulting /dev/md0 acts as a physical volume for LVM and I've created several Logical Volumes aka "partitions" for the filesystems to reside in. > Seems like journalling/crash recovery is pretty vital. Could not partitioning be recommendable? See above. You still have a partition/volume of some sort where the filesystem is created. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie -- 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
