On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:33:53AM +1000, Paul (NCC/CS) wrote:

> last night I created a raid 0 array , but I'm wondering if I did
> it all correctly. (seems to work but just to check...).
> 
> When labeling the disks I made partitions on each of them
> called sdxa, ie "a" that took up the whole disk like the "c"
> partition.
> 
> I wasn't sure if it was like concatenated disks where you
> need to leave a partition at the start for the ccd code to
> write info in. So I just took up the whole disk.
> 
> Is that ok or should I start 1 cylinder in?

That's fine, the file system inside the raid device actually starts 64
blocks into the partition, which is where the raid device metadata is
stored.

> Also when initialising "raidctl -iv raid0 " it was done
> in a flash and I know this can take ages. But since I had
> raid0 (no parity at all?) this might be normal? Can someone
> confirm this?

That is quite normal for a raid0 device. :)

g.