On 06/12/17 20:19, Edward Kuns wrote: > 2) Wol, should there be a section on the Wiki about "Things you should > make sure you have configured" that includes disabling the BBL (unless > you know what you're doing), making sure you're scrubbing regularly, > making sure you have drives that support scterc (or if you don't, > configuring /sys/block/<device>/device/timeout), and so on? Perhaps a > list of information you should have handy before disaster strikes to > make life a lot easier if it does? E.g., running lsdrv or dumping > partition tables to text files or listing information about your RAID > configuration and LVM, etc. A lot of that information is there. I'm just very conscious of the need to make everything read well - too much documentation feels like it's been thrown together, and is a horrible read. One piece of documentation is a perfect example of how readers can miss stuff because it's too obvious ... :-) I had trouble finding out how to do some operation to do with text entry in a word processor. I couldn't find any reference to it in the index. I searched high and low. Then somebody pointed it out to me in the manual - it was repeated on nearly every other page! I'm planning to condense a lot of this thread into the "scary things that are easy to fix" page, but your idea of a checklist page sounds very good. Expect it to appear some time "soon" :-) (Note also that a lot of this stuff I don't have personal experience of, so it only tends to make its way into the wiki when something crops up on the mailing list.) Cheers, Wol -- 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
