So, my data on my desktop is currently a mix of extremes. I keep my Linux home directory striped across two 250GB HDDs (RAID 0!). (As an aside, I actually formatted the whole 500GB as NTFS, and use ntfs-3g in Linux to mount the drive… so this is really seriously flaky stuff.) And then I periodically back the whole thing up to dreamhost via rsync…

Recently I’ve found I can not load my RAID0. When mounting, it complains after finding the drives. It creates the disks fine (detecting my nvidia fake-raid), but is unable to do anything with my partitions, complaining “DOS: partition past end of RAID device”. I boot into Windows and its fine, but I have discovered a workaround… when I power on my desktop I first boot Windows, immediately restart and then boot Linux, and all is well.

I think this is very much Not Good, but it seems to work and I haven’t been able to fix it through other means…