mdraid & dmraid, Fedora 11 & Fedora 13

[Joe Christy]

   Vis-a-vis Aram J. Agajanian's note of 2010-05-25 20:22:
> ...
> F8 to F11 and RHEL 5 use dmraid for BIOS RAID.
>
> F12 and F13 use mdraid for BIOS RAID.

	Bingo! Just the info I needed. Thanks very much. "Brevity is the soul 
of wit" and all that.

> I have installed Fedora onto several computers with Intel BIOS RAID
> arrays and have always partitioned similarly to the way that you have
> described.  Anaconda has detected the BIOS RAID array and generated the
> fstab correctly in F12 and F13.  I have never used /etc/crypttab and
> always do fresh installs.

	Let me ask for a little clarification, please, Aram. Have you migrated 
such a machine from F11 to F12 (or even F13)? If so, did you wipe the 
physical volume and re-partition, or did you re-use the old partition 
scheme?
	Due to the relative slowness of my (networked) backup device and the 
amount of data, doing a full restore of the system in question took many 
hours when I re-did the RAID going from F10 to F11, far more than 
migrating my desktop, w/ 3 times as much data and hardware RAID (where I 
simply re-used the existing partitions). By now I have nearly a year 
more local stuff to bring forward.

> ...
> In F12 and F13, I have recently experienced bug # 576749.  It seems
> that an mdraid resync makes the computer unresponsive.

	Bummer.

> In F13 Anaconda, BIOS RAID storage devices are found in the Advanced
> Storage option.
> ...

	Thanks again.

		Joe