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
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