> Could the information be stuck in the master boot record?
Any LILO gurus out there who know about "spare" space in the MBR ??
> Anyhow, as far as I can see the real issue is how to replace a failed drive
> in the array..
No -- that's easy -- raidhotadd ...
> In a RAID setup, you'd like to be
Hi,
> The only place I would even imagine this would be possible would be in
> the mode pages, but my recollection of the SCSI standard says that all
> of these modes pages are read only. :(
IIRC there are some writable fields in some drives to allow you to set
caching/writeback behaviour, for e
> That's not the point: we don't even _look_ for a raid superblock unless
> the partition is marked for autostart.
Yup -- a *REAL* bummer if the partition doesn't have a partition type.
> There are related problems we need to deal with regularly when building
> filesystems: what happens if you r
Hi,
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:27:26 -0500 (EST), Laszlo Vecsey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Isnt there room in the raid header for an additional flag to mark the
> 'partition' type? I realize this might require a 'mkraid --upgrade' to be
> run, but at least the 'partitions' could then be detected an
Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
> In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition
> your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is
> what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is
> available though, its a little unfortunate for those of
In the original docs or howtos, mention is made of being able to partition
your /dev/sdx device first, or just using it as a raw device.. which is
what I've done. Now that detection based on the partition type is
available though, its a little unfortunate for those of us with raw
devices.
Isnt th
