From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:56:10 -0600 Message-ID: <201109281256.10312.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <4E834758.2090508@hardwarefreak.com> <4E834B8A.9090902@yazzy.org> Reply-To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E834B8A.9090902@yazzy.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: lists@yazzy.org Cc: stan@hardwarefreak.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On September 28, 2011, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: > On 9/28/11 6:12 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/28/2011 2:10 AM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote: > >> On 9/28/11 4:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> Reading the thread, and the many like it over the past months/years, > >>> may yield a clue as to why you wish to move on to something other than > >>> Linux RAID... > >>> > >> :) I will give it another chance. > >> > >> In case of failure FreeBSD and ZFS would be another option. > > > > I was responding to Neil's exhaustion with mdadm. I was speculating that > > help threads such as yours may be a contributing factor, > > requesting/requiring Neil to become Superman many times per month to try > > to save some OP's bacon. > > That's what mailing lists are for. And more will come as long as there > is no documentation on how to save your behind in case of failures like > that. Or if the docs with examples available online are utterly useless. I think that those of us that have been helped on the list should think about contributing some wiki docs, if there's one we can edit. -- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@fjellstrom.ca