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Old 4th September 2009
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softraid(4) is a little further along than jggimi mentions, it is in the default kernel after all.. unfortunately the major problem is that backwards compatibility is not a goal, and newer viewers may break on-disk structure (..forcing you to rebuild the array).

A bonus with softraid is that it is controlled and monitored with the same utilities as many of the hardware RAID controllers, bioctl(8).

There are 4 methods available, ccd(4).. raid(4) - (..aka RAIDframe).. softraid(4).. and hardware RAID controllers (..apropos RAID).

Good luck.
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