> Isn't there any space for something in which the disks are made parts of > RAID arrays *before* the partitions are created and yet all the RAID > operations would be made by the main CPU and so it would still be > considered > software RAID? What would happen if the equivalent of mdadm was *included* > in the OS kernel? > > Thank you. > You could always combine software raid and LVM. Create a RAID1 device using Software RAID. Then set up LVM with the apropriate LVM logical volumes under /dev/md0 or whatever. Shawn