On 9 Sep, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Luckily I've only used 11Gig, and all of it is replicated elsewhere
> (almost all of it on the raid-5 I replaced with the new mirror since it
> was made up of old, and slooooow disks). I just hate how freaking long
> ext2 takes to fsck on large filesystems. It sounds like I'm safe
> sticking with what I've got as long as I don't sync while mounted. Plus
> I don't keep anything critical on this box (it's my home box).
BTW, I forgot to note:
I brought a switchbox home from work the other day, that was supposed to
let me use my sun kb/mouse with my Sparc and my PC (linux box). When I
turned it on it hung both machines hard. Had to power cycle both (for
some reason the PC would hang on boot with the box, even though it
worked fine at work.. but that's another story).
I actually have 3 reiser mirrors on this box: /var /home and /usr/local
(/usr/local is the 46gig disks, /var and /home are much smaller and are
different partitions on the same two scsi disks, so their syncs were
serial) and they all had to rebuilt. Since I hadn't heard anything bad,
and was going by the (out of date, which I know now) FAQ on the reiser
page, I allowed the disks to mount at boot. I didn't see anything out of
the ordinary. The mirrors rebuilt at about the same speed I expected
them to, and the reiser filesystems worked fine. However I wasn't
writting much (if any) data to them at the time, perhaps a few emails
trickled onto /var.
Of course there's always a chance that I might run into corrputed filed
here and there down the road.. but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Since mirroring with reiser is fine in 2.2 as long as you don't let it
mount while syncing.. I guess it comes down to a choice of a long fsck
of an ext2 system during sync... or waiting for the sync before
mounting.
--
Mike Marion - Unix SysAdmin/Engineer, Qualcomm Inc. - http://www.miguelito.org
Give a man a match and he'll be warm for an hour... Set him on fire and he'll be warm
for the rest of his life
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