[linux-lvm] md: personality for level 1 is not loaded

Dragan Milivojević galileo at pkm-inc.com
Mon Nov 2 14:05:32 UTC 2015


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:23 PM, James Hawtin <oolon at ankh.org> wrote:
> I find it is important with md to make sure your /boot or / if you do not
> have one uses metadata version 0.90 which sticks the metadata at the end of
> the disk, not the beginning. Grub does not really understand metadisk
> however a mirrored fs with metadata at the end can be read read only like a
> normal fs, and that is how it works.

grub2 fully supports raid so grub should not be an issue, 0.9 metadata
is quite ancient
and should not be used. Metadata 1.0 (1.0 not 1) should be used with
boot loaders
that do not understand raid (EFI ESP is a good use case for 1.0 metadata).

Dragan




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