On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Florian Philipp <
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> Am 25.05.2011 12:45, schrieb Zack Yovel:
>> 2011/5/25 Florian Philipp <
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>> Am 25.05.2011 07:29, schrieb Zack Yovel:
>> > Install SL6 on RAID 0 on GA-890GPA-UD3H (chipset: AMD SB850 )
>> >
>> > Does anyone know of a raid driver for this motherboard or chipset?
>>
>> Any particular reason why you invest effort in using the onboard RAID
>> instead of just using software raid (md subsystem instead of dm)?
>> Onboard RAID gives you negligible or even negative performance gains and
>> locks you in on their disk format.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Florian Philipp
>>
>> I almost feel like I do something wrong :)
>> I want onboard RAID because I want everything raided and I plan a
>> dual-boot with windows server. I believe software RAID of either linux
>> or windows will make it impossible to install the other system on the
>> raided partitions. I would create half of the storage raided in linux
>> and half in windows, but at least windows raid requires converting the
>> hole two disks to dinamic, which will prevent my from installing any
>> other OS on either of them.
>>
>> In short - I have two disks, I want them both on raid 0, and I want
>> dual-boot with windows.
>> If hardware RAID isn't the best solution for this, I'll be happy to
>> learn of another one..
>
> Well, in that case, onboard RAID really is your only option unless you
> a) invest money in a real hardware RAID controller
> b) replace dual-booting with virtualization
>
>> Excuse my noobish questions, but what do you mean by "md subsystem
>> instead of dm" and by "locks you in on their disk format"? are you
>> talking about MBR vs. GPT?
>
> MD is the kernel subsystem for software RAID. Device mapper (or dm) is
> used for onboard RAID, among other things. In the kernel, they use the
> same code-base but their interfaces and purposes are different.