Re: Software RAID and Fakeraid

[hansbkk]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I personally consider soft raid on raw devices so convluted that I
> have never done it.  I would rather have something I know works with my
> bootloader and other tools, than gain that extra 1MB (at most) that not
> having partitions gives.  Also given many PCs won't boot from a drive
> without a partition table, it isn't even an option then.

For others googling this later, another very good reason for *never*
RAID'ing raw block devices (ie always creating at least one partition
first) is that if you ever mistakenly boot into some flavors of
Windows (even from some optical discs, perhaps unknowingly left ina
drive), your disks will automatically get "helpfully" initialized, as
windoze thinks it's a brand new empty drive being offered up like a
virgin for sacrifice - **poof** there goes all your data.

Speaking from experience 8-(