Re: RAID and GPT

2015-05-02 Thread Michael van Elst
k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: >Date:Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:26:27 + (UTC) >From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) >Message-ID: > | RAID autoconf will tell the kernel to use partition 'a' of > | the RAID device as root, [...] >Not quite when GPT is us

Re: RAID and GPT

2015-05-02 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:26:27 + (UTC) From:mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) Message-ID: | RAID autoconf will tell the kernel to use partition 'a' of | the RAID device as root, [...] Not quite when GPT is used on the raid. What really happens is that th

Re: RAID and GPT

2015-04-29 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@ir.bbn.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >I am wondering about: > - a pair of identical 4T disks > - GPT, with each having a single partition starting at 64, type 'raid' > - a RAID1 of what will be configured as /dev/dk0 and /dev/dk1, marked >as -A root > - within raid0, gpt label, and partit

RAID and GPT

2015-04-29 Thread Greg Troxel
Right now most of my systems have disks <= 2T, and disklabel, except for data-only external drives that are GPT. I realize that booting off gpt and gpt/raid is perhaps too hard, so all of this is asked in the context of loading a kernel from a USB stick that will then have root on a parition on a