Hello I recently changed disks in an openbsd system. Everything went smoothly, as expected.
I dumped the old filesystems; installed the new disks; created "fdisk partitions" on the physical drives; made "disklabel partitions" on the physical drives; setup a softraid0; created the "disklabel partitions" on the softraid; and restored the filesystems. The machine booted up like nothing had happened. But, I just realized that I did NOT create a "fdisk partition" (MBR) within the softraid. When I look at the fdisk partition table of the "softraid" it is completely blank; no OpenBSD partition, no offsets, etc. Everything seems to be working fine. But I don't know if this is "wrong" and will result in problems down the road. It wouldn't be a big deal to recreate the raid and re-restore the filesystems if necessary; but I would rather not waste the time if it isn't necessary. Since the softraid volume doesn't have the base OS installed on it, and will never be used as a "boot device," I think I am ok, but am not sure. So, are things ok with no partition table in the "MBR" of the softraid, or should I fix that before the system has trouble? Thank Ted [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/x-pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
