Dmraid "fakeraid" instructional question.

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Thu Aug 2 21:45:44 UTC 2007


You can read a bit more about it in the introduction section of 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto

The simple answer though, is that it is software raid that in some ways, 
behaves like hardware raid though the use of specialized bios and drivers.


Andres Tello Abrego wrote:
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> Hi, does the hardware configures with the dmraid, is a real hardware
> raid, or is a software raid without any difference that the native md
> raid of linux?
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> As far I know. dmraid creates a mapping to the unexposed raid drive to a
> dev entry at the /Dev/mapper system...a and nothing else.
> 
> Were can I read a little more about what and how dev mapper works?
> 
> TIA.
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