partitioning a RAID 0 drive

[Liam Proven]

On 6 September 2010 18:22, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:
> 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.

My experience is more or less the opposite. I have even seen
"fakeraids" that 2 different versions of Windows couldn't see.

I hate the technology and never use it if at all possible. Alas, my
clients sometimes do, so I have to deal with it occasionally.

I have read of knowledgeable friends trying to get dual-boot to work
in such a scenario. I have never heard of an account of it working.

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