From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Greaves Subject: Re: Time to deprecate old RAID formats? Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:00:31 +0100 Message-ID: <4720AF8F.4050906@dgreaves.com> References: <18200.49267.763509.924873@stoffel.org> <18200.53593.687483.120827@stoffel.org> <1192810534.1666.68.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18200.56684.14194.630264@stoffel.org> <1192813877.1666.79.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18200.63987.514073.184865@stoffel.org> <471E7DC6.7050206@tmr.com> <1193184555.10336.3.camel@firewall.xsintricity.com> <18207.56169.769976.512617@notabene.brown> <4720AD15.7040600@tmr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4720AD15.7040600@tmr.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bill Davidsen Cc: Neil Brown , Doug Ledford , John Stoffel , Justin Piszcz , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Bill Davidsen wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: >> I certainly accept that the documentation is probably less that >> perfect (by a large margin). I am more than happy to accept patches >> or concrete suggestions on how to improve that. I always think it is >> best if a non-developer writes documentation (and a developer reviews >> it) as then it is more likely to address the issues that a >> non-developer will want to read about, and in a way that will make >> sense to a non-developer. (i.e. I'm to close to the subject to write >> good doco). > > Patches against what's in 2.6.4 I assume? I can't promise to write > anything which pleases even me, but I will take a look at it. > The man page is a great place for describing, eg, the superblock location; but don't forget we have http://linux-raid.osdl.org/index.php/Main_Page which is probably a better place for *discussions* (or essays) about the superblock location (eg the LVM / v1.1 comment Janek picked up on) In fact I was going to take some of the writings from this thread and put them up there. David