On Sunday 20 Oct 2013 15:31:12 [email protected] wrote: > I would suggest trying it by usong the older metadata format. > Check the man pages, but I thinl it would be --metadata=0.90 (or similar) > during creation. That might put the metadata at the end, rather then at > the front. (Or it's the other way round and new metadata does it at the > end.) > > -- > Joost > Ps. I have never tried it this way (full disk raid for boot device) using > linux software raid.
Ha! Yes, this made a difference, thanks! With metadata 0.90 I can see the same partitions I set up on /dev/md0, also on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. The only problem now is that the Ubuntu server CD wants to format /dev/sda2 as swap and fails at that stage. :-/ Not sure how to by-pass this. I may also try metadata=1.0 to see if this makes a difference, which also positions the RAID data superblock at the end of the device: Sub-Version Superblock Position on Device ----------- ----------------------------- 0.9 At the end of the device 1.0 At the end of the device 1.1 At the beginning of the device 1.2 4K from the beginning of the device -- Regards, Mick
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