A few questions in regards to the discussion between Robert Haarman and mickey around Nov 24 on ccd mirroring. The conclusion is don't use c for a usable partition in a ccd device.
This sounds fine until I try to recover from a disk failure. When I use the c partition in a ccd mirror device I can unconfigure the ccd and mount each half of the mirror seperately. So if a hard disk were to fail I could edit my fstab and the server could be back up quickly. With any other partition scheme this seems impossible, and would require a dd before the filesystem could be mounted. Mickey's reasoning behind not using c is that the real disk's label will get trashed. I don't see how this is possible if the real disks are setup properly. My real disks are setup with a small unused a partition, with d and e setup for the ccd mirrors. c is then used inside each ccd for the main filesystem. Bobby Johnson
