From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br>
Cc: Linux-RAID <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: documentation
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 08:58:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110201085851.2b665f1a@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTindmhPU3Lazk33XPaS_Pw7AL52LXKeXAML6F3Y=@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:39:03 -0200 Roberto Spadim <roberto@spadim.com.br>
wrote:
> hi guys, where´s the official documentation page (wiki)? is it at
> linux kernel source code? or at a wikipedia or another wiki page?
> i found this:
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/linux-raid
> at wikipedia
> and some documentation inside kernel source code
> what´s the most updated (official)?
>
"official" has always struck me as a rather strange term in this sort of
context. It implies that there is an 'office' which the 'official' holds.
I wonder what this 'office' is....
However to be useful instead of philosophical:
- the source code is the definitive documentation. However few people can
read it very well.
- the man pages in the mdadm package are the formal documentation that I am
most likely to update in anything close to a timely manner. In particular
man 4 md
is worth a read.
- An archive of this mailing line (linux-raid) is likely to be the best
informal source of documentation. It contains lots of valuable
information, but of course is not structured very well.
- https://linux-raid.wiki.kernel.org/ is a community-maintained wiki which
should be reasonably reliable. (that is the same location as the link that
you found above).
- the doco in the kernel (Documentation/md.txt) is hardly ever updated and so
is probably badly out of date. Sorry.
- As has been mentioned, http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm and
http://neil.brown.name/blog/SoftRaid sometimes contain useful information
but I don't write as often as I would like to.
- This is a Book: Managing RAID on Linux
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565927308/index.html?CMP=IL7015
however it is now about 8 years old, so it will be missing a lot of new
stuff.
Hope that helps,
NeilBrown
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 21:39 documentation Roberto Spadim
2011-01-31 21:43 ` documentation Mathias Burén
2011-01-31 21:58 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2011-01-31 22:14 ` documentation Roberto Spadim
2011-02-01 9:37 ` documentation hansbkk
2011-02-01 13:49 ` documentation Roberto Spadim
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