On 1/26/24 08:19, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024, Nicolas George wrote:
Now that I think a little more, this concern is not only unconfirmed,
it is rather absurd. The firmware would never write in parts of the
drive that might contain data.
UEFI understands the EFI system filesystem so it can "safely" write new
files there.
The danger then is that a write via mdadm corrupts the filesystem. I'm
not sure if mdadm will detect the inconsistent data or assume both
sources are the same.
Hardware raid that the bios cannot subvert is obviously one solution.
Is nearly the only solution, but it needs to have a hard specified
format that guarantees 100% compatibility across all makers or they
cannot use the word raid in their advertising. I am sick of proprietary
makers doing a job that subverts the method with full intentions of
locking the customer to only their product. Let there be competition
based on the quality of their product.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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