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From: Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de>
Subject: Re: How does md(adm) work with fake-raid ?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:10:23 +0200
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On 07/21/2013 03:41 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Martin Wilck <mwilck@arcor.de> wrote:
>>> Yes, but my question is about how md cooperate with the BIOS in this case ?
>>
>> Not sure what you mean. When Linux runs, with or without MD, no BIOS
>> code is ever executed.
> 
> Ok I think I'm missing something more fundamental here.
> 
> For exemple when writing to the disk, each write goes into the 2 disks
> in case of RAID1. When Linux runs, is it either DM or MD (and
> necessarily one of them) that does this work ?

Yes.

> For windows case, does it relies on a driver that is provided by the
> RAID manufacturer ?

Exactly.

Regards
Martin