From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miles Fidelman Subject: Re: All kinds of things on RAID/mdadm Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 08:05:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4EB7D7A9.6080300@meetinghouse.net> References: <4EB7D340.80009@mindconnect.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4EB7D340.80009@mindconnect.nl> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Martijn wrote: > > Where do you think that important things, such as to 'how to organize > failover' and questions like 'do I benifit from putting swap on a RAID > char. device', should be documented? Is it the currently unreachable > raid.wiki.kernel.org? Would it be better to provide the info that > leads to the answers in the mdadm manual so that it is always available? > > Are there any sources you would recommend reading if someone is > interested in how mdadm/software-RAID 'works'? I'm not sure if RAID > has an actual spec somewhere on which mdadm is based. > I'd like to echo this. The unavailability of raid.wiki.kernel.org (as well as the rest of *.wiki.kernel.org) is a rather critical outage. I've been hard pressed to find any other definitive sources of information about md, btrfs, etc. Anybody have some suggestions? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra