[arch-general] Bios Raid (Fake Raid) and Virtual Raid (Software Raid)

Wed Sep 4 00:26:12 UTC 2019

On 09/02/2019 08:07 AM, Kelly Rogers via arch-general wrote:
> Hi,
> Can you tell me what is capable to do Arch Linux: Bios Raid (Fake Raid) and
> Virtual Raid (Software Raid)?
> Thank you!

Forget fake-raid -- dmraid (though I have used it for years), just use Linux
software RAID (mdadm). Far more flexible and a guaranteed migration path
forward. The overhead for software raid was negligible on on single-core 486
machines, it isn't even in the noise anymore.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.