Rebuilding a Raid 1

[Danny]

Sorry Kristian, by fakeraid I meant softraid.

I actually boot off an mdadm RAID0 on my main system. SO it is not a
requirement to use bios raid to boot off of these raid types.


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Ian Stakenvicius, Aerobiology Research <
ian at aerobiology.ca> wrote:

>
> A small bit of terminology difference is being used, I think.
>  Traditionally:
>
> hardware raid:  raid cards that handle all HDD io independently.
>
> Bios raid / fake raid:  what dmraid is meant for (or mdraid, for isw)
>
> software raid: pure software/kernel solution; using mdraid.
>
> 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.
>
>
> On 2013-05-18, at 6:00 AM, Danny <danwood76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kristian Rasmussen <
> kristian.rasmussen at broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>> On 17.05.2013 20:10, Danny wrote:
>> > The problem with dmraid is that the only people who use it are dual
>> booting
>> > windows,
>> Or anybody who wants to boot from fakeRAID.
>>
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