Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Bernhard Prell
Thank you very much for your feedback so far! Kerin Millar wrote: For this reason, and because I believe that the stability of reiserfs was improved drastically in later revisions of the 2.4 kernel, I would urge that you consider using a modern 2.4 kernel and the latest reiserfs tools if

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
On Monday 29 November 2004 10:25, Bernhard Prell wrote: Christian Mayrhuber wrote: I'd suggest to do the following for pull the plug scenarios on productive systems with reiserfs: 1) Disable write caching for ide drives with hdparm -W 0 /dev/hdX    This is the most important thing to

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Dieter Nützel
Am Montag, 29. November 2004 10:25 schrieb Bernhard Prell: Thank you very much for your feedback so far! Kerin Millar wrote: For this reason, and because I believe that the stability of reiserfs was improved drastically in later revisions of the 2.4 kernel, I would urge that you consider

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
On Monday 29 November 2004 14:31, Dieter Nützel wrote: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/data-logging 2.4.25 is current for data=ordered|journal Greetings, Dieter I had these patches running on 2.4.26 and 2.4.27 kernels. Both working fine. I don't know about these patches and

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-29 Thread Matt Stegman
Will this really help to protect against partially written sectors and from there resulting read-errors (If a disk loses power while writing a sector the CRC-Check will fail and the disk reports an read-error that's not caused by a real hardware defect)? Changing the write cache strategy just

Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-25 Thread Bernhard Prell
Hello everybody, I have a simple question about Reiser4. I already tried to find the answer in http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html but I'm not completly sure if I understood everything :-) *Background: I 'm administrating about 20 computers. The installed Linux/Reiser is quite old: SuSE Linux

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-25 Thread Kerin Millar
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 16:37 +0100, Bernhard Prell wrote: [snip] *Background: I 'm administrating about 20 computers. The installed Linux/Reiser is quite old: SuSE Linux with kernel 2.4.7(SMP) (dmesg tells me reiser 3.5.x disk format, ReiserFS version 3.6.25). Obviously people often pull

Re: Question on Reiser4 regarding power failures

2004-11-25 Thread Christian Mayrhuber
On Thursday 25 November 2004 16:37, Bernhard Prell wrote: Hello everybody, I have a simple question about Reiser4. I already tried to find the answer in http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html but I'm not completly sure if I understood everything :-) *Background: I 'm administrating about