Managing RAID on Linux

Acknowledgments

Many people helped with the writing of this book, but the greatest credit is owed to Andy Oram, my editor. It was his early interest in my original proposal that started this project, and his suggestions, criticism, and raw editorial work turned this text from a draft into an O’Reilly book. I’m also indebted to many people at O’Reilly, for all their hard work on the numerous tasks involved in producing a book.

Neil Brown, Nick Moffitt, Jakob Oestergaard, and Levy Vargas reviewed the final draft for technical errors and provided me with essential feedback. Their insight and expertise helped make this book stronger. Many others helped review various bits of material along the way, including Joel Becker, Martin Bene, Danny Cox, Jim Ford, Corin Hartland-Swann, Dan Jones, Eyal Lebedinsky, Greg Lehey, Ingo Molnar, and Benjamin Turner.

Thanks to all the filesystem developers who offered me feedback on Chapter 6: Stephen C. Tweedie, Seth Mos, Steve Lord, Steve Best, Theodore Ts’o, Vladimir V. Saveliev, and Hans Reiser. My appreciation also goes out to all the vendors who provided me with software, equipment, and comments: Thomas Bayens, Chin-Tien Chu, and Thomas Hall at IBM; Angelina Lu and Deanna Bonds at Adaptec; Craig Lyons and Daron Keith at Promise; James Evans at LSI Logic; Pete Kisich, Kathleen Paulus, and Adam Radford at 3ware; Joey Lai at Highpoint Technologies; Mathilde Kraskovetz at Mandrake; and Harshit Mehta at SuSE.

Thanks to my family and friends, who provided support and countless favors while I was writing this book, especially Dallas Wisehaupt, Philippe Stephan, Stephen Fisher, Trevor Noonan, Carolyn Keddy, Erynne Simpson, David Perry, Benjamin Richards, Matthew Williams, Peter Pacheco, Eric Bronnimann, Al Lenderink, Ben Feltz, and Erich Bechtel.

I owe special thanks to Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, Jeff Green, and the entire staff of Craigslist.org for graciously providing me with office space and Internet access during my many excursions to San Francisco. Their hospitality directly resulted in the writing of Chapter 2. And finally, thanks especially to Eric Scheide, who encouraged me to write the original proposal for this book, gave me my first job as a Unix system administrator, and didn’t argue as I slowly retired Ultrix and Solaris machines in favor of Linux.