That's the whole point of trying this test...... As I have a working booting machine with currently 8 drives.......all partitioned as above. I have just created RAID5 mdadm setups on drives [d-h] on partitions [2-5], once they've synced I'm going to see if I can install Live USB Fedora to them and then boot from there. If it doesn't work I've just lost a bit of time. On 24 May 2015 at 11:35, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2015, Another Sillyname wrote: > >> But reading this..... >> >> >> https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats#The_version-1_Superblock_Format >> >> it makes a sound argument for the metadata superblock being at the >> beginning of the drive.......in a nutshell the kernel can 'construct' >> the md device easier if the metadata is at the beginning....as well as >> data resilience issues in the case of a crash. > > > I don't see how you have any choice in case of /boot. I am a strong > supporter of v1.2 superblock (4k into the partition) as can be seen from the > discussion about this some years back, but in the case of /boot when the > boot loader needs to access files on /boot before the raid is started, I > don't see how you have a choice. So stay away from v0.90, but v1.0 has the > same functionality apart from where the superblock is placed. > > > -- > Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx -- 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
