Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Matthias Koenig wrote:
>>> Patch6:         e2fsprogs-mdraid.patch
>>>
>>> This apparently adds a new environment variable,
>>> BLKID_SKIP_CHECK_MDRAID, which forces blkid to not detect mdraid
>>> devices.  I'm not sure why.
>> Workaround for people having stale RAID signature on their disk:
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=100530
> 
> Hmm... there's got to be a better way around this.

Won't help existing block devices, but it'd be nice to have a common
library which could be called @ mkfs time to wipe out all known
signatures...

mkfs.xfs tries to do this, but it'd be silly to duplicate in every mkfs.

> On my "one of these days" list is to get another cheap/used laptop so
> I can try out the latest Fedora Core Rawhide without having to fire up
> a huge (noisy) x86_64 box....

Just partition... ;)

-Eric
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