[ale] Linux support for Intel Matrix Storage Manager?

[Mike Harrison]

> 
> >2. Is it common practice to put the root partition on the RAID along with 
> >the other partitions, or to use a regular drive separate from the RAID for 
> >this?
> >
> Much depends on why you're using RAID in the first place.  If 
> disk-failure survivability is the goal, then nothing should be on *any* 
> drive that will be bring you down or keep you from booting if it goes 
> out - not root, not swap, nothing. 

Agreed. But the #1 problem is "Oh !@#! I deleted..." or "Aack Hacked!"
and raid does not solve these issues. I really REALLY believe in 
using (as well as RAID if you can afford both ways) what I jokingly refer 
to as 'Asynchronous Raid'. - An extra drive in the server.. and one 
elsewhere that you make rsyncs of the important stuff "/home, /etc.."
daily and weekly into separate directory structures. 

My Sunday night ritual is to mirror a couple of production servers
to a old dual 650 at home.. even at Cable/Comcast speeds.. 
this makes an excellent backup machine and does not take long
(after the first time).