partitioning a RAID 0 drive

[Steven Susbauer]

Liam Proven wrote:
>> If
>> Ubuntu couldn't boot/dual-boot from it, there'd be a whole range of
>> desktops on which Ubuntu couldn't be installed.
>
> Beware. There is a *huge* difference between booting - which isn't a
> problem - and dual-booting, which is a totally different kettle of
> fish. You are conflating the 2.
>

I think you're missing the point of what fakeraid does. It is not very 
hard to dual boot on a fakeraid.

>> I don't know the graphical installer that well but If you select
>> raidvol2, don't you get an option to install Ubuntu alongside Windows?
>
> The 2 OSs use totally different methods to create and manage RAID
> arrays. If things go 1 sector out of perfect sync, I would expect one
> OS to instantly trample all over the other's data.

No they don't. Fakeraid is meant to work much like a true hardware raid. 
If the OS has drivers for the raid card (and is able to see the disks as 
one full disk, as provided by the fakeraid system (which is generally 
configured after/during POST) then they are already set up. The OS is 
not meant to create and manage the RAID arrays.