On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:27 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Hi Neil, > > A couple of things, recently I tried to make a new system (MDADM/latest/SW > RAID1) and noticed that GRUB & LILO still only support 0.90 superblocks. > This leads me to my next question. > > Will the newer superblocks be supported? I ask this due to my final > question. > > With 0.90 superblocks, I have never seen any array (raid1,raid5,raid6) try > to correct a read-error, but when I made an array with 1.2 superblocks > (not the boot volume of course) using VelociRaptors, great for testing > crap disks that don't work in read, I did see it try to correct read > errors! I was wondering if that is only applicable to superblocks >= > 1.x+? > > I know you can build yourself an initrd/miniroot so/on/so forth but its > nice when you can just build a kernel, run lilo and have it auto-detect > the raid1 volumes and boot accordingly (as you can with 0.90 superblocks). have a separate boot partition raid1.... > > Justin. > -- > 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 -- 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
