Andy Smith wrote: > >The newer set of people recommending partitions are mostly doing so >because there's been a few incidents of "helpful" PC motherboards >detecting on boot what they think is a corrupt GPT, and replacing it >with a blank one, damaging the RAID. This is a real thing that has >happened to more than one person; it even got linked on Hacker News >I believe. > >Then there will just be people going by taste. > >Personally I still put them directly on drives. If I ever get taken >out by one of those crappy motherboards, I reserve the right to get >a different religion. ð
I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) Putting partitions on the RAID drives helps *me* identify them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...