discuss: Software-RAID-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Software-RAID-HOWTO
From:
David Greaves ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2008 09:03:14 +0100
Message-Id: <482BF05C.1010606@dgreaves.com>
jdd wrote:
> ####@####.#### wrote:
>> the LDP will stubbornly, and rightly, refuse any changes to the
>> current RAID-HOWTO which renders it useless as a standalone document.
>
> ??
>
> LDP is *not* a document author, only a collector
I thought so too.
Rick snipped and ignored that part of my post.
"Would you please consider noting in the HOWTO header
that the Software RAID HOWTO is out-of-date and that as of 2008, readers may be
better of consulting the community managed wiki at the osdl URL."
????
>> I haven't bothered checking whether there are existing RAID-HOWTO
>> maintainers but I'm guessing that there aren't. Please don't flame me
>> if there are. Thank you :)
>
> the logical way is to first read the author part of the HOWTO and write
> to the authors. Did somebody do this on the beginning, before bashing them?
Indeed I did.
http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Credits
and, on a personal note...
Great, thanks - I hope for the best for the Wiki :)
-- / jakob
>
> NB: by the way, is your doc (HOWTO or wiki) speaking of what have to be
> done in case the partition table is lost? Is there any special raid
> thing about that? I'm author of the partition rescue howto, but don't
> know anything of RAID and an update of the howto is on the shelf
> thanks
No there's nothing special about raid in that respect - there are however
several issues about partitioning block devices rather than layers and RAID
falls foul of this.
Essentially IIRC the kernel doesn't do partition detection on the block device
and it (md) has to trigger this manually from kernelspace at the right time.
Come over to linux-raid (low volume) and ask and I'll dig through the archives
and reply where Neil can correct me if need be.
David
