On Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:18 PM, Crossfire [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] was once rumoured to have said:
> >
> > Be warned that I've noticed problems using reiserfs on LVM partitions.
> > Writing to the reiserfs file system seems to cause bdflush to jump up to
> > between 30-70% cpu usage and thus slows the machine down considerably.
> > Reading is fine of course.
>
> Yes, well... You're not supposed to ever use Reiser over a virtual
> block device like LVM or software MD due to block device buffering
> issues - Reiser, being a journaling filesystem, does not mix with disk
> write buffering.
>
> Because of this, I run reiser against two raw 30GB disks here, rather
> than over an LVM or software MD append/raid. AFAIK, Hardware RAID is
> fine for this application.
>
> C.
Interesting. I am about to build a machine using 2 x 20Gb IDEs. I was
planning on software mirroring the drives and running reiser...
This is the first time I've tried to mirror on Linux.. I guess then I should
be looking back at ext2 and suffering the odd fsck? Any suggestions?
Thanks ;)
Cheers,
Marty
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