https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379532
Summary: md man page includes incorrect acronym definition Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Documentation AssignedTo: ke@novell.com ReportedBy: plowe@novell.com QAContact: ke@novell.com Found By: ---
The md(4) man page states:
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DESCRIPTION The md driver provides virtual devices that are created from one or more independent underlying devices. This array of devices often contains redundancy, and hence the acronym RAID which stands for a Redundant Array of Independent Devices.
md supports RAID levels 1 (mirroring), ...
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RAID actually stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive _Disks_. The sentence above might've been referring to another acronym, except the man page goes on to refer to RAID 1, etc.
I doubt this is specific to *SUSE products, but there is no author information included in the man page, so am reporting it here.
I am expecting WONTFIX for this. :)
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User ke@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379532#c1
Karl Eichwalder ke@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Karl Eichwalder ke@novell.com 2008-04-14 02:49:33 MST --- Assigning to package maintainer.
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Michal Marek mmarek@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Michal Marek mmarek@novell.com 2008-04-14 03:24:33 MST --- Disks, Drives, Devices -- I don't know. Silly issue IMHO :). Anyway, the manpage was written by Neil Brown, it's in the comments on the top of the file.
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User nfbrown@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=379532#c3
Neil Brown nfbrown@novell.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Neil Brown nfbrown@novell.com 2008-04-30 23:52:32 MST ---
The following patch will appear in the next upstream release. It will appear SUSE releases in due course.
Thanks, NeilBrown
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ The .B md driver provides virtual devices that are created from one or more independent underlying devices. This array of devices often contains -redundancy, and hence the acronym RAID which stands for a Redundant -Array of Independent Devices. +redundancy and the devices are often disk drives, hence the acronym RAID +which stands for a Redundant Array of Independent Disks. .PP .B md supports RAID levels
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