Re: A / with XFS on RAID5 with an external log

[asjo@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Adam Sjøgren)]

On 11 Mar 2002 16:24:31 -0600, Steve Lord wrote:

>  o first of all we are testing code which should help with the
> internal log performance of raid5 - but it is not ready now.

Yeah, I read that. Cool.

>  o second maybe you need two boot options here: rootfstype=xfs and
> rootflags=logdev=/dev/md1

I just tried that. It removed the complaint from EXT2fs, but I still
get an oops (I just tried with the initrd-variant, let me know if you
think it'll change anything to try with a non-initrd kernel):

 [...]
 RAMDISK: Loading 1468 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
 Freeing initrd memory: 1468k freed
 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
  printing eip:
 c0139391
 *pde = 00000000
 Oops: 000
 CPU:    0
 EIP:   0010:[<c0139391>]   Not tainted
 [...]

(I got tired of typing there, if the rest is useful, let me know and
I'll post it all).

> If I read the code correctly, this should make it only try and use
> xfs.

Maybe I get the oops when it's actually trying to mount the xfs-system?


  Thanks!

   Adam.

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 "Well, I'm a moon around you"                                 Adam Sjøgren
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