On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 08:09:31AM -0500, James Manning wrote:
> My impression was that the s/w raid code only wrote to the ends (last 4k)
> of each device, so I'm trying to clarify the following paragraph from
>
> http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/Software-RAID.HOWTO-4.html#ss4.7
>
> The persistent superblocks solve these problems. When an
> array is initialized with the persistent-superblock option in
> the /etc/raidtab file, a special superblock is written in the
> *beginning* of all disks participating in the array. This allows the
It's a bug !
The superblocks are written in the end of all disks. I'll fix this in
the HOWTO ASAP.
> kernel to read the configuration of RAID devices directly from
> the disks involved, instead of reading from some configuration
> file that may not be available at all times.
>
> Is the paragraph wrong or am I misunderstanding persistent superblocks?
I can't believe I actually wrote *beginning* in the HOWTO... I should
know where the superblocks are... :)
Thanks,
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