Warren Young wrote:
> On 6/23/2012 12:15 AM, Digimer wrote:
>>
>> Software RAID? If you have two or more disks, yes.
>
> There's no requirement that if you have two disks, they have to be
> RAIDed together. I frequently build systems with /dev/sda being a lone
> SATA disk for the OS and apps, with /dev/sdb being a hardware RAID for
> the real data the system manages. Another pattern I've used is a small
> CF card for the core OS, and /usr, /home and other bulk users of storage
> off on a second spinning disk.
>
> A better test is probably "mount | grep md".
cat /proc/mdstat
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