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Idea: Use extended blocklist format to support installing to raid device
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Bean |
Subject: |
Idea: Use extended blocklist format to support installing to raid device. |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:38:52 +0800 |
Hi,
Currently, the blocklist format can only support traditional disk. I'm
thinking about a new format that can be used in raid as well.
The new format is like this:
checksum_0 blocklist_0 checksum_1 blocklist_1 ...
The checksum is the checksum of sectors in the blocklist that follows.
For example:
c1 10+20,40+10 c2 10+50
This means 10-30,40-50 sectors from one disk, then 10-60 sectors from
another disk. The checksum is used to find the correct disk.
For traditional disk, we can also use this format, for example:
c1 10+20,40+10
This can support install to different disk than the one core.img is
in, as it will scan all disks for the correct checksum at runtime.
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Bean
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