Re: XFS + LVM + Software RAID5 on Debian testing

[Charles Steinkuehler <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Guggenberger wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 19:20, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> >
> > > I guess open a bug if you haven't done so already, nothing obvious
> > > springs to mind and I don't know much about LVs (I just assumed they
> > > were simple enough and would work as expected).
> >
> > I'm becoming less conviced this is an XFS problem, and am thinking there 
> > might be some issues with the 'stacking' of the new SATA drivers, 
> > software RAID5, and LVM2 in linux.  I'm still doing testing, and if 
> > possible am going to try a 2.6 kernel, LVM1 (instead of LVM2), and the 
> > kernel from debian-stable (if it will talk to my NForce2 chipset and 
> > SiImage SATA controllers).
>
>
> are u talking about the siimage or the sata_sil driver?
> I remember jgarzik posting about data corruption with sata_sil recently
> on lkml.
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108793683025643&w=4

I'm running the siimage module, not the sata_sil, but it looks like I am 
using the 'quirky' si3112 chipset (x2 - 1 PCI plug-in-card and 1 on the 
motherboard).

I'm currently trying to figure out if the problem is with the controller 
or not.  The odd thing, is I wasn't having any problems prior to getting 
the second controller (PCI card) and 2 more drives (after running out of 
space on my ext3-on-LVM-on-RAID1 setup with 2x 160G drives).

Anyone got a recomendation for a stable/fast SATA controller to use with 
linux?

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Charles Steinkuehler
charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx