I still don't think Softraid is ready as a production RAID environment. And I say that as a user of Softraid in production. I do so for its CRYPTO discipline, not for RAID.
It does support more than RAID 1, now, as RAID 0/4/5 were added. However, f you lose a mirror in RAID 1, or, lose a drive in a RAID 4 or RAID 5 array, the arrays will continue operating, but -- unfortunately -- recovery of the full array will requires a complete backup and restore, negating its usefulness in comparison with other RAID technologies.
RAID 0, because it has no redundancy at all (it should never have been called "RAID" by UC Berkeley), would not be a problem, since the array would have to be recreated anyway.
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