Suggestion to anyone setting up RAID on Linux: Use lvmraid, rather than mdraid directly (lvmraid will use mdraid behind the scenes). The flexibility it gives y

Suggestion to anyone setting up RAID on Linux: Use lvmraid, rather than mdraid directly (lvmraid will use mdraid behind the scenes). The flexibility it gives you for later is very large - things like migrating to new hard disks, adding disk space, adding a cache layer (lvmcache), it's quite worth it.