> You need to start using data at cylinder 1 on all disks or it will get
> nuked. It doesn't happen on the first disk because ext2 skips some
> space at the beginning of the volume.
>
> Swap space has the same problem, you cannot start it at cyliner 0.
> So if RAID adds a workaround for it, the problem is still there just
> in another case. The solution is to educate people that they need to
> be careful when they partition their disks.
I don't agree with this solution. New SWAPSPACE2 handles this well (it can
sit at cylinder 0), and IMHO RAID should behave like that as well, ie. leave
first 1k/4k/8k (someone decide) untouched and not part of the actual raid.
Cheers,
Jakub
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