Hi,
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 18:56:48 -0800, "David S. Miller"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> You need to start using data at cylinder 1 on all disks or it will get
> nuked. It doesn't happen on the first disk because ext2 skips some
> space at the beginning of the volume.
> Swap space has the same problem, you cannot start it at cyliner 0.
The new-style SWAPSPACE2 avoids the first 1024 bytes in the partition
precisely because of requests such as these from Sparc people.
And yes, I agree, having the same facility for raid component partitions
would be most useful. Adding a "start data offset" to the raid
superblock, defaulting to 0, would allow backwards compatibility too.
--Stephen
