Subject: Re: bug#17994: Linux RAID MBR type code

From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:01:45 -0400

On 7/14/2014 11:40 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> It ends up that 0xFD is only supposed to be used for mdraid 0.9 
> metadata. For 1.0 and later they want 0xDA so that it isn't auto 
> assembled and gets ignored by everything else.

Says who?  1.x won't be auto assembled no matter what the type code
says.  Why introduce this 0xDA instead of keeping the existing code?
Also what about gpt?