From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: berk walker Subject: Re: mr. brown: point me to text on RAID Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:15:06 -0400 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F4400FA.1080107@verizon.net> References: <3F3D8221.50601@verizon.net> <16189.44385.931195.562323@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16189.44385.931195.562323@gargle.gargle.HOWL> To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday August 15, berk.walker@verizon.net wrote: > >>Sir, I have seen that you are both knowing and published. What might I >>buy as end-all/do-all text on RAID (software)? >> > > > I'm not sure I am the best person to ask. I tend to learn by reading > source materials (source code, technical papers, etc) rather than text > books, so I have no experience of reading a RAID text book and finding > it useful or not. Possibly others on the list might have experiences > they could share. > > However, having said that, I can recommend > > Managing RAID on Linux > by Derek Vadala, published by O'Reilly > > I know about it because I helped with the technical review. > It is reasonably well balanced with general introduction material, > some technical details, and some practical sys-admin guidelines. > It is certainly an adequate text, and may well be a very good text. > > NeilBrown > > > > >>Thanks for your consideration. >> >>b- >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in >>the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > ..duh.. I am thinking... you could write a good one, publish it, included code is GPL'd, royalties yours... I'd buy the book. b-