Re: grub2 md-linear unsupported?

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

On 23.04.2012 17:09, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> On 23.04.2012 17:02, Bean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe it only support raid level 0/1/4/5/6/10. It's easy to add
>> linear support, but i guess grub2 is currently in frozen state so you
>> might need to wait a bit.
> It depends on the kind of the problem. If it's just small probe issue
> (like I suppose given that mdraid1x_linux.c has code to alias -1 to 0)
> then it can be fixed before 2.00. If it's something more serious it will
> have to wait.
I've confused -4 and -1. Supporting linear would need some non-trivial
changes to grub_diskfilter_make_raid even though diskfilter supports
such a config. So it's post-2.00 stuff. Meanwhile I recommend using LVM.

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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko

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