Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753501AbXLGHaq (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:30:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751423AbXLGHaf (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:30:35 -0500 Received: from 41-052.adsl.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.41.52]:33817 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751389AbXLGHae (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2007 02:30:34 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, apiszcz@solarrain.com Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.23.9 + mdadm 2.6.2-2 + Auto rebuild RAID1? References: <87tzmxym73.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> From: Nix Emacs: the definitive fritterware. Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:30:08 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "6 Dec 2007 15:09:15 -0000") Message-ID: <877ijrynb3.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-DCC-INFN-TO-Metrics: hades 1233; Body=5 Fuz1=5 Fuz2=5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1301 Lines: 31 On 6 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt verbalised: > On Dec 5 2007 19:29, Nix wrote: >>> >>> On Dec 1 2007 06:19, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>> >>>> RAID1, 0.90.03 superblocks (in order to be compatible with LILO, if >>>> you use 1.x superblocks with LILO you can't boot) >>> >>> Says who? (Don't use LILO ;-) >> >>Well, your kernels must be on a 0.90-superblocked RAID-0 or RAID-1 >>device. It can't handle booting off 1.x superblocks nor RAID-[56] >>(not that I could really hope for the latter). > > If the superblock is at the end (which is the case for 0.90 and 1.0), > then the offsets for a specific block on /dev/mdX match the ones for /dev/sda, > so it should be "easy" to use lilo on 1.0 too, no? Sure, but you may have to hack /sbin/lilo to convince it to create the superblock there at all. It's likely to recognise that this is an md device without a v0.90 superblock and refuse to continue. (But I haven't tested it.) -- `The rest is a tale of post and counter-post.' --- Ian Rawlings describes USENET -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/