On 05/04/2010 16:52, Mark Knecht wrote: [...]
John, Thanks for the summary. It's succinct and covered the info I needed this weekend.
In which case, apologies for not answering until Monday afternoon :-)
One question comes to mind. I'm about to build a Gentoo machine that will run a number of copies of Windows in VirtualBox VMs. The system will be nice, reliable RAID1 for all of Linux, and then 'fast' RAID0 on different drives for the VM data. As there will be nothing involved with booting Linux on this RAID - just the VM data. I assume that there's no problem assembling RAID0 after the boot process has essentially completed, and that this RAID could use any form of metadata?
Yep. You could do this with /home /usr /var too. I expect Gentoo's init scripts will run mdadm for you before mounting the other filesystems; the other distros generally do.
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