Re: raidframe on > 2TB disks, revisited

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 17:47:36 +0000 (UTC), John Klos wrote:
>>> 4) simply boot a kernel in GPT which is in RAIDframe which is in GPT.
>> 
>> This may not be that hard either (and I think it's entirely separate
>> From autoconf of root in gpt).  But it is probably more involved that
>> the disklabel method, which I think relies on the inside-raid a
>> partition being the one to use and starting at 0 in the raid virtual
>> disk.  One would have to skip the raid header and then recursively read
>> another gpt, and add back in the offset to the start.
> 
> That's the part I wish I understood better. Obviously, this would fix 
> many, many scenarios which are sure to come up since it's just a 
> matter of time before disks smaller than 2 TB aren't even made any 
> more.

Well, install/44982 is only five years old... what can you expect...

hauke

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