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On 10/28/2014 09:55 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Fundamentally, if /dev/sda has a valid RAID label then it *MUST* be setup
> and accessed through the dmraid device and *NEVER* via /dev/sda.
> 
> Otherwise the installer will see a disc that is too big and it will destroy
> the RAID label at the end of the disc, then the system will not boot.

For MBR partitioned disks this isn't really a problem because they never
really use the last bit of the disk anyhow, but for GPT, yes... that
would be a problem.

> FWIW, RHEL gets this right and sets up dmraid on this disc.

Interesting.. they must have a patch that hasn't been upstreamed.


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