From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Recovery of failed RAID 6 and LVM Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:31:30 -0500 Message-ID: <4E834BE2.1010007@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4E7EDE58.3000804@yazzy.org> <20110926074002.6399de56@notabene.brown> <4E7FA3E8.5010603@yazzy.org> <20110926081853.2819622b@notabene.brown> <4E804062.3020700@yazzy.org> <20110926193130.6377f5b9@notabene.brown> <4E82203A.60507@yazzy.org> <20110928091335.1df35f8e@notabene.brown> <4E828B92.40502@hardwarefreak.com> <4E82F923.8080807@ziu.info> Reply-To: stan@hardwarefreak.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E82F923.8080807@ziu.info> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michal Soltys Cc: NeilBrown , lists@yazzy.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 9/28/2011 5:38 AM, Michal Soltys wrote: > W dniu 28.09.2011 04:50, Stan Hoeppner pisze: >> >> 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... >> > > IMHO, in almost all cases - at the end of the chain - is misinformation. > While this might be a bit bold - a lot of users don't even spend a few > minutes doing elementary homework like man md/mdadm/mdadm.conf and less > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/md.txt. Be it normal usage, or when > problems happen. Rumors and forum wisdom can be really damaging - not to > look far away - how many people keep believing that xfs eats your data > and fills it with 0s ? Two people have responded to my comment above. Neither read it in the proper context. I was responding to Neil. Neil wants to quit Linux RAID. I simply eluded that 'desperate, please save my bacon!' help threads such as the current one may be a factor. -- Stan