DANGER!!! Problems with 10.04 installer (RAID devices *will* get corrupted)

[Alvin Thompson]

On 04/26/2010 10:22 PM, J wrote:
> Be warned, I have to do this in a virtualized environment as I don't
> have enough physical hardware to recreate this.  My only multi-disk
> system is my home fileserver and I don't really fancy tearing that
> apart and rebuilding it...  so keep in mind that I'm doing this in VM
> space... but given that this is software RAID that shouldn't matter as
> the OS doesn't know it's a VM.

Rats, it probably won't work in a VM because of the way a VM's virtual 
storage devices work. They discard everything that's not being used at 
that moment, otherwise you'd have to allocate the full size of the 
drive. Thus, you probably couldn't have any defunct file systems sitting 
around.