> (I'm aware of the failed-disk patches and have used them
> successfully. Is there another way?)
(resize2fs from PartitopnMagic, and of course dump/restore ...)
> If you ask me, mke2fs should be modified to reserve that 4k in the end
> of the volume by default..
Yup -- I too suggested that when I first came across RAID1 PSBs ...
[ and there needs to be some code to check that the space is free when mkraid
is run. And there needs to be a way to say (or at least re-assure the user
that) the first disk is the one to clone -- some users mail fail to "dd" the
original to the copy ...
]