[CentOS] *very* ugly mdadm issue
Warren Young
warren at etr-usa.com
Tue Sep 2 18:14:00 UTC 2014
On 9/2/2014 12:05, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2014-09-02, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>> On 8/29/2014 14:26, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that we did this on *raw*, unpartitioned drives (not my idea).
>>
>> Nothing wrong with that, particularly with big "midden" volumes like
>> this one.
>
> Indeed--hardware RAID controllers don't partition their drives before
> creating their arrays.
It also has the side benefit that you don't have to worry about 4K
partition alignment. Starting with 0 means you're always aligned.
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