On 06/17/2012 06:12 AM, Igor M Podlesny wrote: > Hi! If I understand correctly, one cannot safely switch between 1.x > metdata layouts since data offsets would be different, right? > > Why not to overcome this limitation by holding all three metadata > zones reserved to prevent RAID data allocation inside them? It doesn't > seem to be significant waste of disk space, but would be more flexible > indeed. A very useful property of v1.0 metadata is that the contents start at the partition start, making Raid1 contents available to bootloaders when the array isn't running. That behavior is incompatible with your suggestion, so your suggestion will be unacceptable to anyone using that behavior to their advantage. (Like me.) Phil -- 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
