Hi,

Is there any real documentation out there on raidtools-0.90 and the 0.90
kernel md device driver? I was happily using my own patched version 0.36.0
and now I'm trying to upgrade.

All of the raid HOWTO's and FAQ's are horribly out of date. The included
documentation to the raidtools-0.90 tar is also out of date and lacking. I'm
finding myself reading the source code as I go just to understand things.

As an example, the raid1 personality wants a chunk size in it's
configuration file. But no where is this stated in the documentation. And
the examples disagree with themselves: the raidtools-0.90/raid1.conf.sample
file does not have a chunk-size, but the raidtools-0.90/raidtab.sample file
does I can accept that raid1 needs a chunk size, but how does the chunk-size
setting effect raid1, it's not doing any striping.

I'm not looking forward to reading the entire source code.

I suggest that the following files be either updated or deleted from the
.tar.gz archive. They will only tend to confuse people trying to use the
raidtools-0.90 package.

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HOWTO
QuickStart.RAID
raid0.conf.sample
raid1.conf.sample
raid4.conf.sample
raid5.conf.sample
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 - David Harris
   Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services

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