Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:49:11 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Handbook Storage chapter Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1206041526230.61727@lightning.wonkity.com>
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>From a thread on -questions, the Handbook Storage chapter, in disks/chapter.sgml, has some seriously outdated instructions. 19.3 "Adding Disks" talks about dedicated disks, an unnecessary complication. 19.3.1 suggests using sysinstall to slice and partition disks, a bad idea now at least. If you look at it funny, sysinstall will happily write the /etc/fstab for the new disk over your existing one. You didn't need that old version, did you? 19.3.2 has a procedure for setting up a disk using fdisk and bsdlabel, which seems overly complicated, mounting the new disk at "/1". At this point, use of fdisk and bsdlabel can probably be replaced with gpart(8) instead. At the same time, the instructions for "dedicated" disks can be eliminated. It has no advantage and several possible disadvantages. Following that is a section on ccd(4), which needs a look. I was under the impression that ccd was, um, only historically relevant now. Finally, there's a section on ataraid(4), which should at least mention and link to the new graid(4) section in the GEOM chapter. 19.10 "Backups to Floppies" can probably go. It wasn't very viable even when floppies could still be bought.
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