On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:16:00PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > GRUB needs a space between MBR and first partition. Maybe that space was to > small? Or more likely you GPT partitioned the disk (as its 3 TB and MBR > does only work upto 2 TB)? Then you need a BIOS boot partition. Unless you > use UEFI, then you´d need about 200 MB FAT 32 EFI system partition. >
Never used BIOS partition till now, but on the other hand, I've never used 3TB disks. Debian reserve 1MB on start of the partition, but I guess that part is used for MBR. But it wasn't hard to find necessary information. > > I'm not sure what is being copied on freshly installed system. > > What do you mean by that? > > SoftRAID just makes sure that all devices data is in sync. Thats needed > for a block level based RAID. An hardware RAID controller would have to do > this as well. (Unless it uses some map of sectors it already used, then > only these would have to be kept in sync, but I am not aware of any > hardware RAID controller or SoftRAID mode that does this.) Didn't think it would took that much time to sync empty disks, but now it does make sense. > BTRFS based "RAID" (RAID 1 means something different there) does not need > an initial sync. But then no, thats no recommendation to use BTRFS yet. > > Ciao, > -- > Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de > GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 I've tried BTRFS in testing environment, it worked well, but I wouldn't use it until btrfsck is ready and stable. Regards, Veljko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120911112602.gc11...@angelina.example.org
