Rating: 
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: The first 60 pages of this book read like an A+ guide to disk systems, and while that might be useful to some people, a topic like managing RAID on Linux is not the place for it. I'm guessing that if you are interested in this book you already know the difference between SCSI and IDE and really don't need someone to tell you the maximum length of an IDE cable.While the author mentions disk failures we only get 5 short paragraphs on how to go about recovering. The rest of the book is devoted to describing the tools you can use to manage, build, and tear down arrays with equal time given to the earliest (outdated) RAID implementations. I found good and interesting data on approximately 20 of the 250 pages in this book, which means that this will probably replace sendmail as the worst O'Reilly book of all time. What this book does really well is aggregate info that is available on the net, so if you don't have an internet connection or are too lazy to spend the two hours it would take you to google this data up, go ahead and order it
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