whole disk RAID partitioned directly, with Grub BIOS partition

[andrew bezella]

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:32 -0400, Iordan Iordanov wrote:
[...] 
> 2) We would like to give options to mdadm (e.g. to set metadata to 0.9),

"mdcreateopts" can be used in a disk_config: 
raid1       -       sdc1,sdd1       -       -       mdcreateopts="--metadata=0.9"

> 3) We would like to be able to give options to parted (e.g. to create a 
> GRUB BIOS boot partition). The option to parted needs to be of the form 
> "set N bios_grub on", where N is the partition number.

for this it may make sense to use disklabel:gpt-bios.  it creates an
add'l partition for bios_grub.

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andrew bezella <abezella at archive.org>
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