Re: Bios Raid (Fake Raid) and Virtual Raid (Software Raid)

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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



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