Followup: Lack of support for soft RAID

[Scott Dier]

You can use LVM or Software Raid (the md tools) through the alternate 
installer easily enough.  I'm not really excited about supporting 
fakeraid unless fakeraid stuff is actually more beneficial than just 
using md instead.


Scott White wrote:
> I've burned through a few different distributions on this machine now 
> (ICH5 RAID setup).
> 
> Failed
> 
>     * Ubuntu 6.06 Desktop
>     * Ubuntu 6.06.1 Alternate
>     * Gentoo 2006.1
> 
> Then I noticed that the home for the DMRaid project is at RedHat, so I 
> thought, what the heck, I'll try Fedora.  I booted the disc and it 
> loaded a mapper (I assume DMRaid) then asked if I wanted to use this.   
> I specified yes to use remaining space, then proceeded through the 
> installation.
> 
> My point is this distro seems to easily detect software RAID without any 
> prompting from the user, I'm not positive they are using DMRaid with the 
> installer but this should be provided with the LiveCD or at the least, 
> be hackable with the Alternate CD.
> 
> And contrary to this similar bug from a year ago:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dmraid/+bug/22107
> this fix should not be on the Wishlist
> 
> My Bug:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/57860
> 
> I think this definately should be an effort that is undertaken, 
> especially with SATA Raid becoming more popular.  Thanks for your help 
> with this so far everyone!
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 


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Scott Dier <dieman at ringworld.org>