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Bug#815569: partman-md: it should be able to choose metadata={0, 1, ddf, imsm} when creating the RAID



Roger Shimizu <rogershimizu@gmail.com> (2016-02-23):
> I'm porting d-i onto a few Buffalo Linkstation NAS devices recently.
> Linkstation's u-boot loader loads kernel/initrd from 1st partition of
> the disks, which only recognize metadata=0 (or so-called 0.90) for
> RAID-1 case.
> 
> But as you know currently partman-md can only create metadata=1.2, so
> I have to type:
>   mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 -e 0 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
> to create the /dev/md0 manually.
> BTW. partman-md can create the rest /dev/md1, /etc/md2, etc, without problem.
> 
> So I ask you to support specify the metadata style when creating the RAID.
> Thank you!

I suppose this could be solved by adding questions that would only show
up in expert installation mode.


KiBi.

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