Re: RFC - new raid superblock layout for md driver

From: Joel Becker (Joel.Becker@oracle.com)
Date: Thu Nov 21 2002 - 14:39:51 EST


On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:47:43AM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> However, for none-RAID devices like multipathing I believe that activating a
> drive on multiple hosts should be possible; ie, for these it might not be
> necessary to scribble to the superblock every time.

        Again, if you don't use persistent superblock and merely run the
mkraid from your initscripts (or initrd), raid0 and multipath work just
fine today.

Joel

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