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Partition Recovery Course - md-raid Test

If you know that array member disks, say in RAID 5, are all of the same size, then

md superblocks are located at the same offset either in the beginning or in the end of the disks depending on superblock version
the disks will use the same partition layout
md superblocks are located at the same offset in the beginning of the disks
md superblocks are located at the same offset in the end of the disks

What is the difference between 1.x versions of md superblock?

superblock configuration
superblock location
superblock format

Check what md superblock versions exist

0.9
0.8
2.x
1.x

What the size of md-raid superblock

1 KB
1 B
the size depends on NAS manufacturer
1 sector

Check operating system md-raid is used with

Windows
MacOS
Linux

What is the difference between superblocks among array member disks?

the copies of superblock are identical between array member disks
information about a particular disk

In what devices md-raid is commonly used?

NASes
DASes
Windows Servers

The superblock part describing an array is

the same only on first and the last disks
different on each array member disk
the same on all array member disks

Check what can be designated as "md"

driver
software RAID metadata
disks from a NAS
NASes using Linux

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