Quoting Rob Hillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 16:14, Darrell May wrote: > > > > I'll get started on this now... so if I don't reply to e-mails for > the > > > next couple of days, you'll know how badly I've mucked it up... > :-) > > Excellent. It's a race. First to return with a HowTo the > 'rest_of_us' > > can follow wins! > > Good luck gentlemen, and start your backups ;-> > > It's not looking good so far at all... whilst looking for hints on the > > ext3-users mailing list, I found the following notification.... > > ---- cut from ext3-users ---- > > > You should be aware that ext3 (and other journalling filesystems) > do > > > not work reliably over RAID1 or RAID5 in 2.2. Inparticular, you > can > > > get problems when the array is rebuilding/resyncing. > ---- cut from ext3-users ---- > > If I'm reading this correctly, this is going to put ext3 out of > contention as > long as SME remains on a 2.2 kernel... > > Anybody care to correct me? Or have I just gotten in far too deep for > myself? > I don't think you have... I too have been pouring over the mailing lists and do not find any recommendations for ext3 on a 2.2.x kernel. :(
If reliability is to remain priority 1 with e-smith... then I suggest we wait and work on the 2.4 with ext3 sometime in the future. I will play around with it anyhow on Monday/Tuesday since now I won't do a raid install (because of what I read) and see how things turn out. JL jl AT boers DoT cc -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
