RAID

[Phillip Susi]

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto

You can use MD or LVM for raid in linux, but that doesn't allow you to 
boot from a raid0, or dual boot with windows.

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> On 12/30/05, Oscar Veloz <oveloz at glasfloss.com> wrote:
>> I am setting up a machine.  I am hoping to do RAID 1, because my board
>> has onboard RAID.  Does anyone know where I might find a howto on doing
>> this in 5.10?
> 
> If you have proper on-board (hardware) RAID, you should only see one
> disk in the installer, the logical disk. If it is fake RAID, you are
> better off setting up a MD device while installing, and when you get
> to the partitioner, create the partitions you want (across both disks,
> keeping the RAID candidate partitions same size or as close to as
> possible) and change the type of the ones you need to raid or md
> candidate, go in to the sub menu software raid (should be near top,
> quite obvious) in the partitioner and set up your RAID relationships.
> After that, use the mdX device(s) as you would a normal disk.
> 
> HTH,
>