raid questions

[Sean Carolan]

> This is not correct.  It will not boot from linux software raid0 so that is 
> out of the question.  Booting from raid1 and running raid0 should have no 
> performance loss as the boot partition is only needed to boot.

Perhaps you could kindly explain how you boot from a software RAID 
partition.  If the mdadm drivers are ON the RAID partition I do not see 
how this is possible.