On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 01:47:47AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> I think one of the biggest problems with the howto, is that there are two
> versions of it.
Yep
> Places like linuxdoc.org and linux.com and metalab.unc.edu all have have the
> old version last updated in 98
>
> I guess this is partly a necessity due to current duality in raid versions
> in use.
Yep
> A lot of people probably read the old software raid HOWTO and dont realise
> it was targeted at the old version of raid, not the v0.9 stuff.
>
> Has anyone aproached linuxdoc.org (i think they a supposed to be the offical
> place for howto's?) to try and get them to add the new software raid howto ?
Sort of. I contacted the LDP people at metalab. Some people weren't too happy
about the two versions. The ultimate solution seemed to be, to merge the two
HOWTOs into one huge HOWTO. However since I can't reach Linas, and since I don't
have that kind of time on my hands, that's not likely to happen anytime soon.
I promised the LDP people that I'd get back to them once I'd put in appropriate
remarks in the HOWTO about the existance of the older HOWTO, and after I'd gotten
in touch with Linas to hear his view on this.
These things very quickly become political, and I decided to give it a rest for
a while. I'll try to reach Linas a few more times if he doesn't respond to my
mailings, then I'll give LDP another shot, and we'll see what happens. This will
not happen very soon.
> They could carry both and refer to them via the verison numbers, or even as
> the old-software-raid -howto and the new-software-raid-howto.
>
> It would be even better if each of the HOWTO refered to the existance of the
> other
If my HOWTO still lack a clear-enough pointer to the other HOWTO, I'd be happy
to add it. Let me know.
> What do you all think, should someone (i could do it if you want) lobby a
> few sites and try and get the new howto onto a few sites.
That would be nice. But while I support this, I'm not going to push it.
> I think Software RAID is one of the most powerfull yet underutilised
> features of linux. Maybe one day we will get 0.9 in the kernel, have lilo
> supporting all raid modes, one version of the HOWTO, and all linux users
> will be root RAIDing on the default installation.....
Say it brother! :)
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