Hey Adrian, from the old, golden sparc days: On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 04:59:44PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/06/2017 04:40 PM, Fedor Konstantinov wrote: > > I would greatly appreciate if it could be possible to add to the installer > > ability to > > select mdadm metadata version when creating RAID arrays. Now, when creating > > mirror for > > /boot partition (at sun disk slice 0) installer uses v1.2 metadata and so > > it corrupts > > sun disklabel. To avoid disklabel corruption, now I have to manually create > > such partition > > with v0.90 metadata, and ext3 fs in it.
I used v1.0 metadata for the same reason: slice 0 contains at the beginning partitioning information, which will be overwritten by >1.0 versions. Up to there raid bitmaps where at the end. Setup worked with breaking out to a shell, creating raid1 and the continue in the installer. > So, you want to use an old metadata format? Wouldn't it make more sense to > fix the bug > in question? > > Also, you want to create a mirrored boot directory, is that correct? Did that - caveeat was, that the partition table is mirrored, so only the layout of the smaller disk could be used. Greetings Hermann -- Netzwerkadministration/Zentrale Dienste, Interdiziplinaeres Zentrum fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen der Universitaet Heidelberg IWR; INF 205; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)54-14405 Fax: -14427 Email: hermann.la...@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
