Re: howto and faq

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Sunday May 11, david@dgreaves.com wrote:
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +0000, David Greaves wrote:
> >>  
> >>> Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> >> We are now number 6 on google for "linux raid". Most of the other top
> >> pages
> >> are quite old info, say 4 to 8 years old, and not mentioning mdadm nor
> >> raid10. I would like to do some work to get rid of the outdated info, as
> >> it is quite bad guidance to users. I have contacted a number of the
> >> authors for the other top pages, but to no avail.
> >>
> >> I have then looked at who is referencing the top pages, via the Google
> >> "link: URL" feature. For our own pages this is a sad story. Almost
> >> nobody but ourselves are referencing it. That is, the links are mostly
> >> our own pages referencing our own pages, or mail archive pages of
> >> linux-raid ML referencing the wiki.
> >> I would really like to have this improved. That is, if people on this ML
> >> could add links to http://linux-raid.osdl.org/ eg from their home pages
> >> - "I am participating in the Linux kernel RAID mailing list with wiki
> >> pages at http://linux-raid.osdl.org/" and/or include a reference to the
> >> URL when discussing RAID issues on other fora.   
> > 
> > Just a public thanks and "please do" for this. I will update my
> > appropriate pages with this on the next update.
> > 
> 
> <grin> - doesn't help that the mdadm man page still says (and I checked git too):
> 
> SEE ALSO
>        For information on the various levels of RAID, check out:
> 
> >>>>              http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
> 
> 
> Err, Neil....

What exactly did you see when you checking in git?
I saw

 http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff;h=3cdfb6a71259759f24f48d4c14b76e056d0bfaf6

NeilBrown

From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:29:53 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: Updates some URLs in the man page.
X-Git-Url: http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3cdfb6a71259759f24f48d4c14b76e056d0bfaf6

Updates some URLs in the man page.

Particularly, add the wiki on osdl.org
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d96aa86..df88d29 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changes Prior to this release
 	cause by problems with device-size overflow.
     -   For v0.90 superblocks, print the 'Events' count as a real count,
 	not 2 numbers separated by a dot.
+    -   Updates some URLs in the man page.
 
 Changes Prior to 2.6.4 release
     -   Make "--create --auto=mdp" work for non-standard device names.
diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8
index 6edc915..0969238 100644
--- a/mdadm.8
+++ b/mdadm.8
@@ -2103,12 +2103,16 @@ package, and does not use the
 configuration file at all.
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
-For information on the various levels of
-RAID, check out:
+For further information on MD and the various levels of
+RAID, see:
 
 .IP
-.UR   http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software\-RAID.HOWTO/
-http://ostenfeld.dk/~jakob/Software\-RAID.HOWTO/
+.UR  http://unthought.net/Software-RAID.HOWTO/
+http://unthought.net/Software\-RAID.HOWTO/
+.UE
+.IP
+.UR http://linux-raid.osdl.org/
+http://linux\-raid.osdl.org/
 .UE
 '''.PP
 '''for new releases of the RAID driver check out:
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