On 2012-02-15, David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote: > In contrast, Marco, as the author of softraid(4), says the opposite about > use of fdisk, even on the physical disks. And what he says is more recent > than the example in the softraid(4) man page. > > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128847054226289&w=2 > > My thought is that MBR partition (DOS partition) is only needed for > compatibility with other OS's in case they come in touch with the disk. > And probability of such encounter in case of softraid disks and vnd's > is... quite low at best.
Not certain but isn't the fdisk partition needed in order that you can boot from them? (Bootable softraid appeared after that post, of course).
