On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:03:51PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Karel, most of the filesystems that require reading in areas not in
> the first few sectors also have a pretty high minimal size
> requirement. Udev's old vol_id had some guards in there for the raid
> stuff, not to try to probe for the signatures if the filesystem would
> not fit on the volume in the first place.
Well, libblkid uses the same size limits like old vol_id.
Unfortunately the limits are pretty small -- it's usually 65kB or
200kB for RAIDs.
> I'm very sure, zfs can not live on a 0.5 MB volume. :) Care to check
Yes. I think we can set the limit for RAIDs and some advanced
filesystems to 1.4MB. Comments?
Karel
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