On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:25:01PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Can you say anything more about the sort of mistakes you find yourself > making. That might help either improve the help pages or the error > messages (revamping all the diagnostic messages to make the more > helpful is slowly climbing to the top of my todo list). I've been using mdadm from the very beginning, but the one thing I still don't have a great handle on is the difference between querying devices vs. arrays, and when to query what to find out what I want to know. Partly, I'm not familiar with it because it's not like I run mdadm everyday. It's the kind of thing that's run once, configured once, put into a script somewhere and then forgotten about. > > A lot of other manufacturers has also started doing things the Cisco > > way. If you don't have a Cisco router available, you can fx. use a > > Windows XP box. Type 'netsh' in a command prompt, then 'help'. Or > > alternatively 'netsh help'. You get the idea :-). > > Is this and interactive interface where you have hit 'tab' at anytime > and it either completes the current word, or lists options? (For me, > that is the 'kermit' interface, as kermit was the first program I used > which had it). I'd have to vote with Neil on this. mdadm is going to be used in lots of scripts. System startup/shutdown scripts especially. It's current form is awesome for that. Throw the right args together and you can do anything. As soon as it's interative, we might as well use a mouse... ::-P -- Ross Vandegrift ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx "The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell." --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
