On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:31:38PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > What do you mean help? If the raid stores the raid info at the end, then the data starts at sector 0. So no space for a bootloader at all. > It is left empty afaik, which is the whole point of shifting it over to 4kb. Certainly makes sense. Now is 4K enough for a boot loader? Not sure. > Obviously doing nothing is the simplest thing one can do. Instead I > would like to do something and end up with a better, more functional > system. Hence my suggestion on WHAT to do and the existence of this > entire thread. I personally consider soft raid on raw devices so convluted that I have never done it. I would rather have something I know works with my bootloader and other tools, than gain that extra 1MB (at most) that not having partitions gives. Also given many PCs won't boot from a drive without a partition table, it isn't even an option then. Really I think it comes down to only being able to handle the case where there is a 4K gap, if you can fit grub in there in a format that a system would be able to boot reading just sector 0 of the device. The raid info at the start and raid info at the end both prevent you from having any boot code in sector 0 so can't be supported at all. -- Len Sorensen -- 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
