> > are there any issues with using ext3 and journalling on linux raid
> > devices? 
> 
> Hardware raid, no.  It should be fine.

nod.


> Software raid --- don't.  There are nasty interactions between
> journaling and raid resync after a crash.  Things will run fine until
> a crash, but recovery gets things wrong.  2.4 fixes things.
> 
> Note that this only applies to true raid (ie. redundant disks).  LVM,
> raid0 and md-linear should all be fine, as they don't have a resync
> phase after a crash.

i'm most interested in raid1.  sigh.  i was afraid of that.
i don't think we're ready to try 2.4 yet.
oh well.
thanks a lot for the info, Stephen.

-tcl.

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