10.04.1 LTS install with RAID support?

[Tom H]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 16:37, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just gone through an mdadm install in a VirtualBox VM without a
>> hitch from the server iso.
>>
>> Zeroing the metadata should have allowed you to be at the same state
>> as my blank VM disks! If not, mdadm and/or dmraid are buggy...
>
> One thing to remember is that some fakeRAID setups store their
> metadata near the end of the disk rather than at the beginning, so
> that could have been a contributing factor here...
>
> and IIRC, both mdadm and dmraid have issues when the metadata is in
> that end-of-disk area instead of toward the beginning where other RAID
> setups store their metadata...

FOr fdisk or grub1/grub2 to be confused (or to have been confused in
the past), OK (more or less) but for mdraid or dmraid to be confused,
I doubt it.