discuss: Software-RAID-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Software-RAID-HOWTO
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Date:
14 May 2008 17:37:55 +0100
Message-Id: <432cd8760805140946s2b61f386p3035e02af210e7d3@mail.gmail.com>
'Afternoon, all,
Short-time reader, first time poster.
One of the things that I like about the LDP is that it keeps documents
in easily downloadable and translatable formats - great for
downloading onto Palms so I can get a little extra reading done whilst
I'm stuck on the subway. Wikis, to my understanding, don't have this
facility.
Secondly, many sites refer users looking for introductions and
hand-holding to the LDP as the primary documentation source -
particularly if the man pages are over your head. What makes the LDP
attractive to me is that I can learn new concepts in nicely digestable
chunks without having to crosslink and return from other reference
pages. I know that I can start at page 1 in a document on the LDP and
progress with a consistent narrative to the last page.
For these reasons, I think that outsourcing the RAID howto to an
external wiki will weaken the LDP's usefulness both a primary and
versatile reference.
I understand, though that the LDP cannot keep up with new releases
because of its writing process, which I think is the fundamental
reason for linking the LDP's RAID guide to the wiki.
Therefore, perhaps an appropriate compromise would be to base an
updated RAID-Howto on the wiki's documentation - consider it a
'stable' snapshot of the wiki. The wiki would serve as a 'testing'
release of the same documentation. Yes, I'm a Debian user.
That way, the documentation remains current, fairly non-redundant, and
doesn't compromise LDP's integrity.
Or maybe I'm missing the point entirely?
With regards,
Borden Rhodes
