linux-kernel - Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>, Michael Evans <mjevans1983@...il.com>,
	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux mdadm superblock question.

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 02/15/2010 04:27 PM, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> There are three options:
>
> a) either don't boot from it (separate /boot);
> b) use a bootloader which installs in the MBR and
> hopefully-unpartitioned disk areas (e.g. Grub);
> c) use a nonstandard custom MBR.
>
> Neither (b) or (c), of course, allow for chainloading from another OS
> install and thus are bad for interoperability.

I have had no problems with XFS partitions and lilo as the bootloader. 
I've been doing this for a couple of years now without realizing that 
there is supposed to be a problem.

David Lang
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