There's lots of short explanations, and unless you are going to write some software there's really not that much to it. Read about mdadm and you will have it in a nutshell.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://willert.dk/geek/raid.html
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