No, they are SCSI disks in a software mirror. I'm using the software
raid setup in the 2.4.19 kernel as it was as recent as possible.
Chris Tooley
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 14:07, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:52:43AM -0500, Chris Tooley wrote:
> >
> > We're running a point of sale system on Linux and have put the data on
> > an XFS partition. Unfortunately there has been consistent corruption of
> > the data during writes to the database. Since the database is an ISAM
> > database, it's all stored in files that are opened and closed a lot.
> > The vendor of the point of sale is blaming XFS for the corruption. The
> > application is an old COBOL app that is using the binary compatability
> > modules to run. Are there any known problems with corruption when using
> > these binary compatability libraries with 1.1?
>
> Are you using IDE drives? I know there are problems with some IDE drives
> caching data incorrectly, which causes corruption in the event of a power
> failure.
>
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> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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