> This would be easy enough to do, but what would one gain by having this
> data stored in the superblock versus the partition table?  (I.e., why not
> just define the partition to start on a stripe boundary?)

There may be "unusual" platform-specific constraints on where the
first partition on a disk can start (e.g., first partition on a PC
typically starts 63 blocks in, not at the start of the disk).

					- Bill