On 2. Februar 2014 22:39:31 MEZ, Francis Moreau <francis.moro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hi Martin, > >On 02/01/2014 11:04 PM, Martin Wilck wrote: >> Hi Francis, >> >>> For Fake RAID, I'm not sure but I would say that the bios is able to >>> read the RAID metadata as well. >>> For (md) Soft RAID, I don't know. I would say that the bios is >>> unlikely to understand the md metadata stored in the /boot partition >>> so it won't work. >> >> there is no big difference between EFI and legacy systems in this >area. > >Well the main difference I can see is that EFI firmwares access a >filesystem where as BIOS doesn't in order to load the bootloader. The EFI BIOS needs a driver to access the RAID array. But so does the legacy BIOS for accessing the MBR. If you really want to do RAID on partitions, you can put your md-capable EFI boot loader on the EFI system partition. It will work just like in the legacy case. The UEFI partition itself is of course non-uRAID in this setup, but the same holds for your legacy MBR. Martin > >In the case of BIOS you can still rely on a bootloader such as grub to >access a partition with MD RAID on it. > >Thanks -- -- 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
