Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: I am trying to get some order to linux raid info. Help appreciated :) The list description at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid does list af FAQ, http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/ Yes, that should be amended. Drop them a line about the FAQ too So our FAQ

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options (google Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) and the superblocks to emphasise the location and data structure. Would it be good to introduce the new names at

Re: when is a disk non-fresh?

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Dexter Filmore wrote: On Friday 08 February 2008 00:22:36 Neil Brown wrote: On Thursday February 7, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 03:02:00 Neil Brown wrote: On Monday February 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems the other topic wasn't quite clear... not necessarily.

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:05:13AM +, David Greaves wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: The list description at http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-raid does list af FAQ, http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/ Yes, that should be amended. Drop them a line about the FAQ too I will. So

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 10:34, David Greaves wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options (google Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) and the superblocks to emphasise the location and data structure. Would

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Feb 10 2008 10:34, David Greaves wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jan 29 2008 18:08, Bill Davidsen wrote: IIRC there was a discussion a while back on renaming mdadm options (google Time to deprecate old RAID formats?) and the superblocks to emphasise the location and

Re: [PATCH] Use new sb type

2008-02-10 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 10 2008 12:27, David Greaves wrote: I do not see anything wrong by specifying the SB location as a metadata version. Why should not location be an element of the raid type? It's fine the way it is IMHO. (Just the default is not :) There was quite a discussion about it. For me the

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread David Greaves
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: I would then like that to be reflected in the main page. I would rather that this be called Howto and FAQ - Linux raid than Main Page - Linux Raid. Is that possible? Just like C has a main() wiki's have a Main Page :) I guess it could be changed but I think it

Re: howto and faq

2008-02-10 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:21:08PM +, David Greaves wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: I would then like that to be reflected in the main page. I would rather that this be called Howto and FAQ - Linux raid than Main Page - Linux Raid. Is that possible? Just like C has a main() wiki's