Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-xfs); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from batleth.sapienti-sat.org (batleth.sapienti-sat.org [80.190.100.240]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with SMTP id h4T1sZ2x007015 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 18:54:36 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost.sapienti-sat.org [127.0.0.1]) by batleth.sapienti-sat.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 120F210256A for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 03:18:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from koschikode.com (pD9E7FD82.dip.t-dialin.net [217.231.253.130]) by batleth.sapienti-sat.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926F2100123 for ; Thu, 29 May 2003 03:18:05 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3ED55FCB.7000805@koschikode.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 03:18:03 +0200 From: Juri Haberland Organization: totally unorganized User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030425 X-Accept-Language: en, de-DE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: xfs fails to recover a raid0 root filesystem References: <20030529002010.GC1275@anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20030529002010.GC1275@anu.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-archive-position: 4173 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: linux-xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: juri@koschikode.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-xfs Content-Length: 594 Lines: 17 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