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| author | madduck <madduck@3cfab66f-1918-0410-86b3-c06b76f9a464> | 2006-07-24 22:19:56 +0000 |
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| committer | madduck <madduck@3cfab66f-1918-0410-86b3-c06b76f9a464> | 2006-07-24 22:19:56 +0000 |
| commit | c82fd9a87b673d62605f79ae96b69c8015d4e86a (patch) | |
| tree | ef04ac7ee54ca038528ae073fb2be7bd95e400d8 | |
| parent | 43eb24837af59620be921000a455aac08c80bb74 (diff) | |
* Add reference to BAARF to README.Debian and included the RAID5 vs RAID10
article from the BAARF website.
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/README.Debian | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 5 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | debian/patches/99-raid5-vs-raid10-doc.dpatch | 16 |
3 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian index 3cede48b..c0831b8c 100644 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ Common recipes Check /usr/share/doc/mdadm/README.recipes.gz for some simple examples of how to do the most common stuff with mdadm. +RAID5 or not to RAID5 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +See http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html . The package maintainer could +not possibly come up with so much emotion over such a technical topic. + +See also the RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt.gz document included with this package. + Upstream ~~~~~~~~ For completeness: The upstream repository is available from diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 6b181912..61deb244 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -9,12 +9,13 @@ mdadm (2.5.2-8) unstable; urgency=low * Removed the code writing auto-detected devices to /var, which was silly since /var isn't necessarily mounted yet by the time mdadm-raid is called. Thanks to Mau for pointing this out. - * Added questionable RAID5-vs-RAID10.txt document. + * Add reference to BAARF to README.Debian and included the RAID5 vs RAID10 + article from the BAARF website. * Updated debconf translations: - Japanese by Hideki Yamane, thanks! - French by Florentin Duneau, thanks! (closes: #379511) - -- martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:07:33 +0100 + -- martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:14:29 +0100 mdadm (2.5.2-7) unstable; urgency=low diff --git a/debian/patches/99-raid5-vs-raid10-doc.dpatch b/debian/patches/99-raid5-vs-raid10-doc.dpatch index 8ce253de..d3de418f 100755 --- a/debian/patches/99-raid5-vs-raid10-doc.dpatch +++ b/debian/patches/99-raid5-vs-raid10-doc.dpatch @@ -7,13 +7,19 @@ @DPATCH@ diff -urNad trunk~/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt trunk/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt --- trunk~/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 -+++ trunk/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt 2006-07-24 23:06:52.373326792 +0100 -@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ ++++ trunk/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt 2006-07-24 23:18:32.250326974 +0100 +@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ +# from http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt ++# also see http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/BAARF2.html +# -+# note: I, the Debian maintainer, do not agree with much of what's written -+# here, but it's a good argument the author is putting forth. In the end, the -+# RAID level you choose depends on your needs only. ++# Note: I, the Debian maintainer, do not agree with some of the arguments, ++# especially not with the total condemning of RAID5. Anyone who talks about ++# data loss and blames the RAID system should spend time reading up on Backups ++# instead of trying to evangelise, but that's only my opinion. RAID5 has its ++# merits and its shortcomings, just like any other method. However, the author ++# of this argument puts forth a good case and thus I am including the ++# document. Remember that you're the only one that can decide which RAID level ++# to use. +# + +RAID5 versus RAID10 (or even RAID3 or RAID4) |