Root Drive Mirroring and LVM.

[Tim Seufert]

On Jan 25, 2004, at 11:59 PM, Atro Tossavainen wrote:

> The one really big gotcha is that the Macintosh partitioning scheme
> can't tell the Linux kernel that certain partitions are to be 
> considered
> "Linux RAID autodetect" (as in x86 using the DOS partition table type
> 0xfd). This means that you can't boot a Mac Linux system directly from
> RAID because the kernel won't be able to autostart the RAID devices.

Hmmm.  That would seem to be a lack in the Linux RAID code, since the 
Macintosh partition table has a vastly more flexible partition type 
field than DOS: instead of a single byte it's a string.  It would mean 
breaking from the convention of using the "Apple_SVR2_UNIX" type for 
Linux partitions, but that really is just a convention as far as I 
know.