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

[Caspar S. <c....@tr...>]

> 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?!

badblocks /dev/sda

Best regards,
Caspar

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