I want to create a raid0 for /var, but I'm unable to figure how to load mdamd on boot

Sadly, it disappeared:

NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda           8:0    0   1,9T  0 disk
└─sda1        8:1    0   1,9T  0 part /home
sdb           8:16   0 298,1G  0 disk
sdc           8:32   0 111,8G  0 disk
sdd           8:48   0 931,5G  0 disk
nvme0n1     259:0    0 238,5G  0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0  36,9G  0 part [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0 201,1G  0 part /nix/store
│                                     /
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0   512M  0 part /boot/efi

am I supposed to write a /etc/mdadm.conf file?

I see that the nix module has the following option hidden(?):

enable = (lib.mkEnableOption (lib.mdDoc "swraid support using mdadm")) // {
      visible = false; # only has effect when the new stage 1 is in place
    };

I put it on my configuration with enable = true; to see what happens next.