On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:36:07AM +0800, Jessie Evangelista wrote: > I'm still scouring the internet for a best practice recipe for > implementing xfs/mdraid. > I am open to writing one and including the inputs everyone is contributing here. > In my search, I also saw some references of alignment issues for partitions. > this is what I used to setup the partitions for the md device > > sfdisk /dev/sdb <<EOF > unit: sectors > > 63,104872257,fd > 0,0,0 > 0,0,0 > 0,0,0 > EOF > > I've read a recommendation to start the partition on the 1MB mark. > Does this make sense? I would just make the raw disks members of the RAID array, e.g. /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc etc and not partition them. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs