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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:30:08 +0000 From: Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, apiszcz@...arrain.com Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 + mdadm 2.6.2-2 + Auto rebuild RAID1? On 6 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt verbalised: > On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>>> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if >>>> you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot) >>> >>> Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-) >> >>Well, your kernels must be on a 0.90-superblocked RAID-0 or RAID-1 >>device. It can't handle booting off 1.x superblocks nor RAID-[56] >>(not that I could really hope for the latter). > > If the superblock is at the end (which is the case for 0.90 and 1.0), > then the offsets for a specific block on /dev/mdX match the ones for /dev/sda, > so it should be "easy" to use lilo on 1.0 too, no? Sure, but you may have to hack /sbin/lilo to convince it to create the superblock there at all. It's likely to recognise that this is an md device without a v0.90 superblock and refuse to continue. (But I haven't tested it.) -- `The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings describes USENET -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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