Lack of support for soft RAID

[Phillip Susi]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> Actually, this isn't really true.  The default install of KUbuntu 6.06
> detected and configured a DMRaid partition based on the VIA BIOS on at
> least two machines I have recently worked with.
> 

Really?  I find this odd.  Did you install the root to these disks?  I 
haven't worked on it in a few months but I had been working on support 
for this and as far as I know, I was the only one doing so, and I did 
not get automatic support for this done.  I only got as far as a working 
dmraid package that when installed would enable access to these drives, 
but is not included in the setup cd so you can't install normally to them.

> I believe this is mediated through the EVMS system rather than through
> DMRaid directly, but I certainly didn't install anything from the
> network -- this was detected and (annoyingly) created during the CD
> install process using the alternate CD.
> 

I am pretty sure that evms does not handle dmraid, only LVM and MD.

> Regards,
>         Daniel

By the way there is a spec for this at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidSpec