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Re: RAID5 (mdadm) array hosed after grow operation (there are two of us)



On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> [2009.04.30.1615 +0200]:
> > 1.0 superblocks are widely used.  Please don't do that.  Either
> > implement support for both, or use mdadm (which knows both).
> > 
> > This kind of stuff really should not be done halfway, it can
> > suprise someone into a dataloss scenario.
> 
> It should only be done in mdadm, especially since mdadm v3 adds
> user-space superblock formats.

Where can I read about that, before I freak out needlesly? :-)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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