GNU bug report logs - #17994
Linux RAID MBR type code

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Chris Murphy <lists <at> colorremedies.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:43:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>, 17994 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17994: Linux RAID MBR type code
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:01:45 -0400
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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?


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