Re: [webmin-l] Request for two great features in the Linux RAID module.

[Pat E. <pe...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 08:25, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...> wrote:

> On 10/Aug/2009 04:11 Caspar Smit wrote ..

2) It is not possible to add unpartitioned disks as RAID disk inside the
> RAID Module at this moment. You first have to create a partition (Linux
> RAID) on each disk for the module to see them as usable disks. The real big
> advantage for not having to use partitions is performance. Unpartitioned
> raid devices perform better then partitioned one because the partition
> breaks the alignment of the disks.
>
> Cool, I didn't know this was possible - support for it will be in the next
> Webmin release.

BTW, how would you do a surface test of such a partitionless disk if you
suspect problems?!

PAT