Around 1984 or so there was a poster in the Army National Guard building in Tucson that read something like "Keep It Simple Stupid" and went on to say everything should be at an 8th grade level. I was first introduced to Linux in 1998... I took my first programming course in 1983 at the UofA. I was already out of high school for 8 years. I've seen a lot of stuff. I've watched things become increasingly Complicated. I've mentioned this before. Most will shine me on. I'm currently a PHP developer. Over the years I have had my hands in a lot of related technologies. What you describe Michael Butash sounds very complicated. Most things today seem to be. Don't get me wrong, I think some advancements are good such as Proxmox which I use. How do we uncomplicated all of this stuff. -Keith On 2023-02-07 16:21, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote: > That sounds like what they call "fakeraid" using the rst controller, > really there is no need to anymore. For probably 15 years now i've > used two disks in a linux mdraid volume for boot/rest in raid 1 for > redundancy, usually a crypt volume with luks atop the rest physical > volume, and lvm atop that, with ext4/xfs atop that. Still do this > with nvme disks just fine for a few generations of boxes. > > I did setup my old desktop as a proxmox box with zfs doing my raid1 > recently booting entirely off that (super dope, +++ for that), ymmv > per distribution, but that's an option as well for handling all the > software raid function as well. Ubuntu server with the deb installer > always handled setting up raid/crypt/lvm/fs just fine, haven't in a > while personally, but probably still does adequately. I diy normally > with Arch, but it's what drives this laptop I'm typing on currently > with a pair of 980pro nvme samsungs doing above. > > -mb > > On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 4:04 PM AZ Pete via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Ok, I'm finally very close to being able to go to a full Linux >> environment and leave the Microsoft ecosystem. I'm semi-retired and >> still do some Microsoft Data Platform work (which was my career). I >> recently got a Dell Latitude and put Kubtunu 22.04 on it and managed >> to get all my applications, dev tools (many MS tools too!), and >> hardware working. I've been down this road before in years past and >> Linux on the desktop was always a "no-go" for me. So, I was >> *astonished* how easy it was to install Kubuntu and everything just >> worked. That's how it must feel to be a Mac person! :) >> >> However, one of the hurdles with the Dell was that, by default, Dell >> configures the BIOS such that the boot drive (NVME in this case) is >> set to be in RAID mode instead of AHCI mode, even though there is >> only one drive in the system. This caused Ubuntu to simply not boot. >> After doing some research I came to find the Ubuntu doesn't support >> Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST), which RAID requires. It was a >> simple fix to reconfigure the BIOS into AHCI mode, since I was going >> to wipe the Windows partition anyway. >> >> But, my main production dev box is Win 10 and I have two NVME drives >> in a RAID 0 (mirror) configuration (using hardware RAID in the >> BIOS). If I want to install Ubuntu I need to be able to implement >> this same level of RAID. If Ubuntu doesn't support the Intel RST >> hardware, how can I install Ubuntu and have a RAID 0 arrangement? >> I'm not looking for a particular answer to the problem just some >> suggestions on what to research. LVM? ZFS? Software RAID? >> >> Any thoughts would be appreciated. >> Peter >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss