<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br>A small bit of terminology difference is being used, I think. Traditionally:</div><div><br></div><div>hardware raid: raid cards that handle all HDD io independently.</div><div><br></div><div>Bios raid / fake raid: what dmraid is meant for (or mdraid, for isw)</div><div><br></div><div>software raid: pure software/kernel solution; using mdraid.</div><div><br></div><div>now, as for booting -- as far as I know the only way to boot a full raid0 system is to use biosraid, since the bios cannot assemble the striped drives of a mdraid-0 in order to load the bootloader or kernel. yes this is probably a rare config (i would never run it) but if someone so chose, dmraid would be the tool for this job.</div><div><br></div><div><br>On 2013-05-18, at 6:00 AM, Danny <<a href="mailto:danwood76@gmail.com">danwood76@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>You can boot from mdadm fake RAID and it is far superior in terms of features and support/maintenence and the performance is the same. So anyone with a pure linux install would be better off in mdadm.<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kristian Rasmussen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kristian.rasmussen@broadpark.no" target="_blank">kristian.rasmussen@broadpark.no</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 17.05.2013 20:10, Danny wrote:<br>
> The problem with dmraid is that the only people who use it are dual booting<br>
> windows,<br>
</div>Or anybody who wants to boot from fakeRAID.<br>
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