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To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>
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Subject: Re: RAID superblock
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From: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
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[Wakko Warner]
> While this subject is fresh, what would be wrong with using the
> entire drive as opposed to creating a partition and adding the
> partition to the raid?

Does it autodetect an entire drive?  The autodetect logic for
partitions looks at the 'partition type' byte, which of course doesn't
exist for a whole drive.

Just a thought .. I don't run RAID here.

Peter
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