Couldn't agree more. WE NEED PROPER RAID SUPPORT. I would have though this would have been done PRIOR to the release of the Audio Visual release of Ubuntu Studio as one of the primary uses of raid (and fakeRAID) is a/v work as it offers significant performance benefits.
Offering Ubuntu Studio without decent raid support is like building a race car and then only offering diesel fuel to the drivers. Many people using windows boxes have their systems pre-configured with RAID (fakeRAID in particular). Large companies such as Dell supply machines pre-built with fakeRAID now. Pretty much all current chipsets have fakeRAID (and some even RAID5 built in) and it's about damn time the people making installers and distros took notice! - And not just you ubuntu/kbuntu people. Additionally, due to the almost complete lack of fakeraid support in other distros getting it in ubuntu and kubuntu would give the distro an edge over the other ones and could be used as a marketing point. Furthermore fakeRAID should be renamed to something else. My system runs RAID. There's nothing fake about it. The data is sliced across 3 RAID-0 configured drives, yet apparently it's "fake" ? No it's not, it's just another way of doing it that doesn't involve offloading the RAID support to dedicated hardware. And in these quad-core CPU days the cpu's have got cycles to spare doing it anyway! Why not call it "cpuRAID" instead, then at least there's a distinction between [dedicated]hardwareRAID and cpuRAID. That is if you even really need a distinction anyway. -- Meta-bug: Ubuntu needs major software RAID overhaul https://launchpad.net/bugs/68308 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
