On 2014-09-05, Richard Zimmerman <rzimmerman at riverbendhose.com> wrote: > > Until I read this thread, I've never heard of building RAIDs on bare metal drives. I'm assuming no partition table, just a disk label? > > What is the advantage of doing this? For just my purposes, the advantage is that I can treat my md RAID drives in the same way I treat my hardware RAID drives, which are bare drives. It's just easier conceptually for me to not have to remember to create a partition. As Warren said, this is for data volumes, not for arrays that need to host /boot or /. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us