[K12OSN] Linux "Software RAID"

[Carl Keil]

Hey Folks,

I hear people extolling the virtues of "software RAID" on the list a 
lot.  I'm finally setting up a production server in a school and I have 
enough disks to play with to do RAID.  I'm leaning towards RAID 5.  
Anyway, when people say "software RAID" do they mean just setting up a 
RAID in LVM Manager?  Or is the mdadm command the simpler, more robust, 
preferred way to do this?  I never thought about using LVM for this 
before, but the last time I was in there I noticed some RAID options.  
This is for a Samba/LDAP/home directory server.

Thanks,

ck