Release criteria proposal: 'support' /boot on RAID

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Nov 16 18:57:25 UTC 2011


On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:53:17 -0800
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 10:29 -0600, David Lehman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 09:42 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 21:42:40 -0600,
> > >   Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> > > > Old-grub also didn't support newer Linux-md metadata formats,
> > > > so that should be explicitly mentioned (I don't know about
> > > > grub2).
> > > 
> > > grub1 supports md raid version 1.0 metadata. (That's the new one
> > > with the meta data at the end of the partition.)
> > 
> > Right. grub1 supports 0.90 and 1.0. grub2 supports 0.90, 1.0, 1.1,
> > 1.2 AFAIK.
> 
> So, summary: with grub2 we should actually be able to support /boot on
> RAID-0, RAID-1 or RAID-5, metadata 0.90, 1.0, 1.1 or 1.2? Is that
> accurate?

When I upgraded my storage box and had to rebuild the /boot, I first
tried 1.2 metadata, but it did not seem to work. So, I went back to
0.90 and it worked fine. We may want to confirm the support for 1.2
before commiting to support it. 

kevin
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