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mdadm RAID and the Bullseye installer



Gene Heskett wrote: 
> This is interesting and I will likely do it when I install the 
> debian-11.1-net-install I just burnt.
> 
> But, I have installed 4, 1 terabyte samsung SSD's on a separate non-raid 
> controller card which I intend to use as a software raid-6 or 10 after 
> moving the current boot disk with stretch on it to be /dev/sdd, or even 
> leaving it disconnected until 11.1 is installed. It has precious data on 
> its platters. 
> 
> Those samsungs have not been configured for anything yet. They are seen 
> ok but individually in dmesg. Looked at by gparted, but nothing written.
> 
> So, can the installer handle the configuration of those into a bootable 
> format all by itself?

Yes. The installer can assemble them into an mdadm-style RAID 10
and GRUB can boot from that.

-dsr-


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