RAID software raid... confusion easy ubuntu method ?

[Gabriel Noronha]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:32 +1100, Les Gray wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 16:45 +1100 schrieb Gabriel Noronha:
> 
> <snip>
> > Is there a linux software raid which is nicer than the one which has to
> > work with windows ?
> 
> Yes. There are a few good howtos out there. I found this one on the
> Ubuntu forums -
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461&highlight=raid+howto
> 
> I've never used RAID myself, though, because I don't think it makes much
> sense in the home user setting. It just adds another layer of complexity
> to your system that could be a source of problems, while offering little
> in the way of extra performance.
> 
> > 2nd question will installing 64bit ubuntu make vmware more buggy ?
> 
> Quite the opposite, I would have thought. One of the things that the
> 64-bit environment has over the 32-bit is that it's supposed to make
> virtualisation perform better.
> 
> Running 64-bit Ubuntu brings its own problems, though, especially when
> it comes to software compatibility. I installed 64-bit during the Edgy
> release cycle and found that you need to go through a lot of workarounds
> to get things like browser plugins and some multimedia codecs to work
> properly. This is because a lot of this software is not available in
> 64-bit versions or, if it is, it lacks important functionality.
> 
> In the end I thought the extra effort wasn't worth it and went back to
> 32-bit, where 99% of home users are, anyway. You might think differently
> if you do lots of media encoding or other CPU-intensive tasks or you
> need to address more than 64GB of RAM.
> 
> btw, when I can get around to it I'm going to install WinXP in a VM
> using Virtualbox, which is supposed to be easier to set up than vmware.
> 
> > Aside question since every 2nd new motherboard these days ships with
> > "RAID" why is it so hard to set it up on Ubuntu.
> 
> You don't have to use the RAID if you don't want to. I have 2 SATA disks
> in my desktop and I just disabled the RAID ROM in the BIOS. The disks
> just run as 2 separate, 'ordinary' SATA drives.
> 
> 
I Installed my raid system it works very happy with it 

i also wrote https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SoftwareRAID
since there was nothing in the wiki. 

Gab