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On 25/11/2020 15:17, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:55 AM Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On 25/11/20 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Now, one area I would use UUIDs is with mdadm if you're not putting |
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>>> lvm on top. I've seen mdadm arrays get renumbered and that is a mess |
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>>> if you're directly mounting them without labels or UUIDs. |
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>> It is recommended to use names, so I call it by what it is, so I have |
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>> things like /dev/md/gentoo, /dev/md/home etc. |
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> Is that supported with the original metadata format? I suspect that |
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> was a big constraint since at the time my bootloader didn't support |
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> anything newer. |
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Which format is this? version zero (i.e. just mdadm.conf), or 0.9 which |
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is the kernel auto-assembly version. Either way, they're obsolete and |
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bit-rotting. |
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I guess you do need version 1 (the difference between 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 |
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is the location of the superblock, not the layout). |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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