> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-raid-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-raid- > owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hansbkk@xxxxxxxxx > Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:09 AM > To: linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: grub-devel@xxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Software RAID and Fakeraid > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen > <lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I personally consider soft raid on raw devices so convluted that I > > have never done it. Convoluted? It simply removes an unnecessary layer of management. If anything, it is less convoluted, and one needn't worry about partition types and their associated limitations. I currently have 24 un-partitioned drives in my two RAID systems. > > I would rather have something I know works with my > > bootloader and other tools, than gain that extra 1MB (at most) that not Modern bootloaders don't require partitions, either, IIRC, although in fact I do partition my boot drives. > > having partitions gives. Also given many PCs won't boot from a drive > > without a partition table, it isn't even an option then. Do you have an example? I'm not aware of any. In any case, as I said, I do recommend partitioning the boot drive, at a minimum into a root and a swap partition. I also like to keep the /boot target separate, but then /boot is tiny. > For others googling this later, another very good reason for *never* > RAID'ing raw block devices (ie always creating at least one partition > first) is that if you ever mistakenly boot into some flavors of > Windows (even from some optical discs, perhaps unknowingly left ina > drive), your disks will automatically get "helpfully" initialized, as > windoze thinks it's a brand new empty drive being offered up like a > virgin for sacrifice - **poof** there goes all your data. > > Speaking from experience 8-( This is only true with very old versions of Windows. What's more, the data certainly can be recovered. None of my data drives are partitioned. There's really no point. -- 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
