Re: All kinds of things on RAID/mdadm

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Martijn wrote:
>
> Where do you think that important things, such as to 'how to organize 
> failover' and questions like 'do I benifit from putting swap on a RAID 
> char. device', should be documented? Is it the currently unreachable 
> raid.wiki.kernel.org? Would it be better to provide the info that 
> leads to the answers in the mdadm manual so that it is always available?
>
> Are there any sources you would recommend reading if someone is 
> interested in how mdadm/software-RAID 'works'? I'm not sure if RAID 
> has an actual spec somewhere on which mdadm is based.
>

I'd like to echo this.  The unavailability of raid.wiki.kernel.org (as 
well as the rest of *.wiki.kernel.org) is a rather critical outage.

I've been hard pressed to find any other definitive sources of 
information about md, btrfs, etc.

Anybody have some suggestions?

Miles Fidelman


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