FakeRAID in 8.04 or later?

[flatline]

Help? Hope this is in the right place...

I just put together a server for my home. Partial specs:

Asus P5E WS PRO (w/ Intel ICH9R)
Xeon 3110 3.0GHz
4GB PC 800 SDRAM
80GB IDE (system drive)
2x 1TB SATA fakeRAID1 (data)


I first put Windows Home Server on the box, but that OS is far too dumbed-down for my purposes. It was nice being able to stream media using TVersity, but the whole Drive Extender filesystem really started to grind my gears. I am now going to try running 8.04 Server. I did some googling, but reading https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto was pretty daunting.

I wasn't planning on trying to install to the RAID1 array, that seemed like asking too much. I was hoping to be able to utilize my current fakeRAID setup though to mirror my data. Anyone out there know the current status of fakeRAID support in Hardy?

Thanks!

Matt

[tamoneya]

if this isnt going to be a dual OS system you are probably better off with a software raid. I just set one up on my server. (it actually has RAID 0,1 and 5).

http://knowledge76.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Server_Install_With_Software_RAID

[flatline]

Is it possible to setup a software RAID after installation, using the system drive? That is, say I decide to install the system on a 1TB drive, can I then blast the other 1TB drive and build a RAID1 mirror from it?

[tamoneya]

if you have your root partition on the raid you really want to set it up at the install. Otherwise you are only going to make a mess of things.