ata0-raid oddness.

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.ORG
Sat Jan 31 00:22:25 PST 2004


On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:27:07AM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Lanny Baron <lnb at FreeBSDsystems.COM> writes:
> > That is correct. ad0 and ad1 are subdisks of respective ar*
> 
> it is *not* correct - ad0 and ad1 should not be shown when they are
> members of an active array, as any attempt to partition and label them
> directly is likely to corrupt the array.

older ATA didn't show the members of an active array.  ATAng started
showing them. :-(  I asked sos about it and he said they'ed be exposed
for a while until he finished some things he was working on.

Maybe sos can update us on the state of things and the plans.


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