From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: o1bigtenor Subject: Re: Advice requested Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 13:06:42 -0600 Message-ID: References: <56367C33.6060703@turmel.org> <5637842D.1070000@turmel.org> <5638F6AF.7020501@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5638F6AF.7020501@turmel.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel Cc: Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Phil Turmel wrote: > On 11/02/2015 10:41 AM, Phil Turmel wrote: >> Good morning Dee, >> >> { Added linux-raid back -- convention on kernel.org is reply-to-all } > > The next exchange in this thread were too large to make it past the > kernel.org size limits. They contain all of the off-list traffic > the Dee had in his archive and my responses to it. > > I've archived these two mails myself for public benefit -- they were > intended to be public after all. > > http://www.turmel.org/other/Advice-requested-201511021821.eml > http://www.turmel.org/other/Advice-requested-201511021943.eml > > There's a few lessons here: > > 1) Insist on staying on-list. Dee's help drifted away when the > problems weren't solved. No-one else saw the traffic, so could > not step in. > > 2) Trim replies. :-) Good G*d, these were hard to read without > missing details. > > 3) Persevere. > I do hope that someone finds the odyssey useful rather than just amusing - - - its why I'm comfortable having all this public. Dee