On 6/20/2011 2:32 PM, Markus Falb wrote: > On 20.6.2011 21:19, Stephen Harris wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: >>> On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: >>>> Only if I'm partitioning the disk, surely. If I just throw the whole >>>> raw disk into mdadm (sdd, sde, sdf...) then isn't partitioning >>>> irrelevant? >>> >>> So...you were planning on treating the RAID as a raw block device, too, >>> then? :) Otherwise, when you go to partition *it*, I think you'll find >>> that you need to use GPT. >> >> LVM; pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate. What's a partition? :-) > > But your filesystem has still to be aligned correctly. Is lvm 4k > friendly ? Is md ? And in the scenario of the whole disk as an md member, will that auto-assemble at boot time like partitions marked as type FD? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com