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

[Kelly Rogers]

Thank everyone for those information!☺

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:27 PM Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:

>
> On 9/3/19 7:26 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> You can do either in Linux, I believe both work with mdadm. BIOS RAID is
> only worth using if you plan to share the array with another OS, though,
> like Windows.
>
> Yaro
>