Re: xfs fails to recover a raid0 root filesystem

[Juri Haberland <juri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pietro Abate wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've installed xfs on a netra (sparc) workstation. After a power
> failoure xfs just hangs trying to recover the root fs. The fs is
> actually sitting on the top of a raid0 configuration. I don't really
> understand if the problem is related with xfs or with raid (but I think
> it's xfs ...).
> 
> I tried to run the raid in degradeted mode passing raid=noautodetect

Uhm, AFAIK there is now 'degradeted mode' with RAID-0. You lose one -
you lose all! You probably want to run RAID-1 or -5 for redundancy.
RAID-0 is just about speed and/or size.

Cheers,
Juri