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Re: Raid5 regression


From: Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
Subject: Re: Raid5 regression
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 22:23:59 +0200
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> So the net result is that even though it always was detecting the
> superblock on both the whole disk and on the partition, it used to let
> the one found on the partition supersede so everything worked, but now
> it keeps the one on the whole disk and so things break.
>
Now it breaks less then previously. Previous behaviour resulted in NULL
dereference in some cases.
> How should this conflict be resolved?  I would think that the
> partition should take precedence like it used to.
>
Ideally by using 1.1 metadata. It's in the end of the device but
contains enough data to unambigously tell if it belongs to disk or
partition.


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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