Hi, A while ago I set up some RAID 10 arrays (4 x ~750GB drives), in which the arrays' member devices were partitions on the hard drives. I did that because I thought that would allow a 750GB drive to be replaced with a larger drive in the future; the drive could be paritioned similarly to the partitions that that were array members. Later I realized that larger drives can be added to an existing array to replace other drives / partitions / devices and it seems to work fine. I am thinking about setting up arrays to use unpartitioned block devices and switching some of the existing arrays to using unparitioned block devices, too. Is there a benefit to using unpartitioned block devices over partitions or vice versa? Or is it recommended to use one over another? Thanks for reading andrew -- 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
