Re: Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Wednesday June 11, rabbit+list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The subject pretty much says it all - it obviously is not 0xFD, since there is 
> > nothing to autodetect. Is there some best practice/semi-standard way of 
> > marking a raid component partition as such? After reading the specs 0xDA 
> > (non-fs data) comes to mind, but I figured I'll ask here.
>
> I (almost) alway make arrays out of whole devices, not partitions, so
> I really never thought about this.
>
> I suspect 0xDA is safest and hence best.
> I wonder if this should be suggested in the mdadm man page
> anywhere.... anyone feel like creating a patch?

Why 0xDA?

As far as I know, the closest thing there is to a registry is the list 
that aeb at least used to maintain.

	-hpa
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