From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Makuch Subject: Re: Few questions Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:17:11 -0600 Message-ID: <475B6C47.7010000@makuch.org> References: <200712080317.lB83HNn29385@www.watkins-home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200712080317.lB83HNn29385@www.watkins-home.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Guy Watkins wrote: > man md > man mdadm > > I use RAID6. Happy with it so far, but haven't had a disk failure yet. > RAID5 sucks because if you have 1 failed disk and 1 bad block on any other > disk, you are hosed. > > Hope that helps. I can't believe I've been using a raid array for 2 years and didn't know 'man md' was there. I've lived and breathed off of Software-RAID-HOWTO.html but it never mentions it. Just a suggestion to whom it may concern: it might be nice to mention 'man md' in the Howto as well as the wiki pages. Thanks Mike