On Thu, 16 Feb 2012, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2012-02-15, David Vasek <va...@fido.cz> wrote:
In contrast, Marco, as the author of softraid(4), says the opposite about
use of fdisk, even on the physical disks. And what he says is more recent
than the example in the softraid(4) man page.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128847054226289&w=2
My thought is that MBR partition (DOS partition) is only needed for
compatibility with other OS's in case they come in touch with the disk.
And probability of such encounter in case of softraid disks and vnd's
is... quite low at best.
Not certain but isn't the fdisk partition needed in order that you can
boot from them? (Bootable softraid appeared after that post, of course).
Don't know and can't check it currently. But wouldn't it be better if all
OpenBSD platforms are consistent except the situations where a difference
from the rest is enforced by the platform as such?
Regards,
David
