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Originally Posted by jefro
It is a risky install and not really worth trying. Fake raids have been known to show to distros as various things. Different versions of distro may show different media.
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I really don't understand your reasons for making this claim.
Not all distributions have installers that support FakeRAID, so it's true that getting it to work can be somewhat difficult and involve hand-crafting an initrd, but the term "risky" seems to suggest that the end result might not be stable or work properly.
FakeRAID is simply a form of software RAID. The only difference between that and an
md setup is the vendor-specific metadata format. A FakeRAID array is assembled and maintained by device-mapper, and surely you're not arguing that the dm subsystem, which forms the basis for LVM, is somehow unreliable?
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Originally Posted by jefro
Once in a while you can get the card to present dedicated sata or what ever to the OS on upper channels on some models.
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Some years back (2000-ish) you might be able to find a dedicated Linux driver for a FakeRAID controller. I know Promise made one for their FastTrack series of ATA/IDE FakeRAID systems, and I even used it on one occasion. However, these drivers were neither open nor free.
These days, FakeRAID on Linux always relies on the OS seeing the actual SATA controllers and channels, and the RAID is built by directly accessing the metadata on each drive. Exactly like
md, in fact.