On Friday March 10, sandro@xxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > even thought I'm subscribed to this list since quite a lot of time, I only > can grab a little purcentage of the discussion due to technical gap. > > When it happens that I ask something to the list I normally get unanswered > even on problems that in my opinion shouldn't be considered really > specific to my setup. Here just the last 2 questions: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=114185900020437&w=2 > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-raid&m=114120476328121&w=2 Maybe you just have to ask again. It worked this time.... > > I'd like to know if there is a users-linux-raid where these kind of > questions get answered, if I should just insist on this list, or if I > missed some document (possibly a complete howto) that already gives > thorought info on how to cope with troubles, or a wiki. No, this list is the best place to ask. Questions usually get answered, but not always. People are busy etc. Feel free to ask a second time if you haven't had an answer. > > I feel like linux-raid is missing a good howto. The documentation you can > find is often outdated or incomplete and it only saldomly helped me to get > out of problems. > > The sad part of all this is that with raid systems you are not normally in > the mood/position to test things. You would much more prefere to arrive at > the crash already with the knowledge on how to cope with it... but the > crash is never as the one you simulated failing the device... > > Thanks for your attention and you job anyhow > sandro > *:-) > > > PS: In case anybody feeels like writing a complete howto I could > help... with the index ;-) of what a system admin -not a raid guru- > would like to read to understant raid (not just to setup) To have a good howto, we need someone to step forward to write it. They don't necessarily need to know all the answers - they can ask here - but it would help if they know some good questions, and are reasonably good at technical writing. NeilBrown - 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