At 03:17 PM 11/4/1999 +0100, Jakob �stergaard wrote:
>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.
Does this mean we no longer have to start raid partitions at block 1
instead of block zero?
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