On 10-10-26 14:11, Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański wrote:
On 26 October 2010 10:11, Danny Rawlins<d.rawlins@datafast.net.au> wrote:
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Hello,
Why do you use partitioned raid?
Because I can ;). There is no special reason.
you should use metadata version 0.90 for the raid 1 metadata location, it is the only one that lilo and grub supports.
I'm using metadata 0.90 currently so it's not a problem. I guess there is a bug in CRUX in device naming/numbering convention as was described in previous post.
Although I'm starting peeking into crux recently, its udev rules are pretty much standard (besides 2 small outdated files installed, but they have no md related rules whatsoever). mdadm's behaviour is either to rely on udev (if it's running) or rely on pre-3.0 behaviour (if udev is not running) - in latter case creating the necessary nodes and symlinks itself (and names and major/minor numbers might get unusual, depening on things...). Also, 3.x mdadm ships with stock udev rules file itself, and crux port doesn't mess with it in any way or form.. Btw, with some simple dd/degrade/readd tricks, you don't need bootloader understanding raid1 (for its boot stuff, so usually tiny partition at the beginning), as long as its metadata is kept at the end (so either 0.9 or 1.0). With [imho far superior] bootmanager like syslinux it's even simpler (no need to look after stuff like stage1_5).