raid超级块组织，外部元数据与内部元数据

在mdadm中是通过superswitch来实现对超级块的操作，例如写入，载入到内存，更新等，但是除了我们理解的superblock有0.9及1.0版本之外，我们以为应该对应的应该只有两套superwitch操作，但是，源码中给出是这样的：

struct superswitch *superlist[] =
{
&super0, &super1,
&super_ddf, &super_imsm,
&mbr, &gpt,
NULL };

一直在苦苦摸索这究竟为什么有这么多？依旧不是很清楚，愿知者告知~

但据目前从wiki上https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats 关于raid超级块格式的介绍中，其中是这么所的

mdadm v3.0 -- Adding the Concept of User-Space Managed External Metadata Formats

In the development packages for mdadm v3.0, a new concept is added to the traditional version-0.90 and version-1 superblocks.

  Currently two such metadata formats are supported:
    - DDF  - The SNIA standard format
    - Intel Matrix - The metadata used by recent Intel ICH controlers.
  
  Externally managed metadata introduces the concept of a 'container'.
  A container is a collection of (normally) physical devices which have
  a common set of metadata.  A container is assembled as an md array, but
  is left 'inactive'.