After a week of constant use of GM, it actually works well.

[iBug2]

After getting used to the incompatible apps (found some workarounds for them for now and also contacted the developers and they all promised an update shortly after Lion ships) and also getting used to certain things working slower, although certain things working faster, this OS does indeed work.

I should warn people again though, it does not install on RAID0 nor does Disk Utility support verify/repair any RAID0.

So if your boot disk is RAID0, prepare yourself to change it if you want to migrate to Lion.

If you want to keep using RAID0 as your boot disk, this is what you can do. You install Lion on another partition, and then restore is using Disk Utility to your RAID0.

This is not recommended for 2 reasons. First, you don't have recovery partition, because restoring does not create it. Only the install process does create it.

Second, you can't use File Vault on RAID0 disks.

At this point I think it's not a bug, but a missing feature. They probably couldn't get around the recovery partition creating on RAID0 disks so they scrapped them totally from install process. This may be available later on.

 

[KScottMyers]

Wow - finally the answers I've been looking for. I've been trying to install to a RAID 0 configuration for several days now.

Question - If you restore to the RAID, will you then be able to use Disk Utility for verify and repair?

Thanks for your info.

 

[talkingfuture]

Sounds like it is nearly ready then. I wonder if they will pre-announce the release date or just put on the app store and then announce its available immediately?

 

[iBug2]

Wow - finally the answers I've been looking for. I've been trying to install to a RAID 0 configuration for several days now.

Question - If you restore to the RAID, will you then be able to use Disk Utility for verify and repair?

Thanks for your info.

No. Lion does not repair/verify ANY RAID0 disks. Not just the boot disks. If you have other RAID0 partitions it won't do anything about them either.

Although, you can keep using diskutil (the terminal app) and that does support it.

 

[iBug2]

Sounds like it is nearly ready then. I wonder if they will pre-announce the release date or just put on the app store and then announce its available immediately?

I think they'll just put it up like they did with FCP X.

 

[TheGdog]

Sounds like it is nearly ready then. I wonder if they will pre-announce the release date or just put on the app store and then announce its available immediately?

You can sign up for an email update on the Apple site when its ready. Thats what I did.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/notify-me/

 

[KScottMyers]

No. Lion does not repair/verify ANY RAID0 disks. Not just the boot disks. If you have other RAID0 partitions it won't do anything about them either.

Although, you can keep using diskutil (the terminal app) and that does support it.

Thanks.

Is there any other real disadvantages other than what you mentioned? I can live without a Recovery Partition and File Vault. The benefits of having one larger boot volume with the speed of RAID 0 is really what Im after.

 

[iBug2]

Thanks.

Is there any other real disadvantages other than what you mentioned? I can live without a Recovery Partition and File Vault. The benefits of having one larger boot volume with the speed of RAID 0 is really what Im after.

Well those are the only things the installer app warns you about at least. I don't know if there are other issues, since switched to non RAID boot partition for Lion.

 

[NJRonbo]

No problems with the GM....

...but then again, no problems with Developer Preview 4
either except some missing functionality.

This GM is ready to roll to final.

 

[BigJohno]

Been using GM on my Air since it was released. Very quick at everyday tasks. Feels like SL but with more flare. However, I do notice that it runs just a little bit hotter and just a little more memory usage. Not much though.