Bigger boot block size?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <43246066.8070709 at samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> There are perfectly good arguments for metadata at front and metadata
>> at the end and none of the arguments is definitive.
>> 
>There are actually very good arguments for putting the metadata at the 
>end of the components.  Consider that it means that you can boot a
>gmirror array without system BIOS support.

Yes, and it doesn't screw up stripe alignment etc.

But there are also good arguments for putting it up front, which
is why I don't want to impose either view on anybody.

This also makes a lot of sense since we don't get to dictate
the majority of disk metadata rules.


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