From: "Matthew Tice" <mjtice@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:38:39 -0600 > So of course it technically doesn't matter but are there certain > (non-apparent) repercussions for choosing one over the other? It seems to > save a couple steps by using the whole disk (not having to partition) - but > is that it? One thing I'm thinking about the pros of using partitions is if > all your disks (or some) are different sizes - then you can set the > partition sizes the same. First, you sent this to "linux-raid-owner" instead of just "linux-raid". The former goes to me, not to the mailing list. I've corrected it in the CC: Second, to answer your question, for some disk label variants you risk over-writing the disk label if you use the whole device as part of your RAID volume. This definitely will happen, for example, with Sun disk labels. -- 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
