Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thomas Graichen wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> >
> > > Thomas Graichen wrote:
> > >
> > > > just for the FAQ: did anyone try to run XFS ontop of the linux md
> > > > sw raid driver ? (i ask because all the other journaled fs's have
> > > > problems with that due to buffer cache locking issues i think -
> > > > does this count for XFS too ?)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Well since md is the only lvm to support software raid at this point, and
> > >
> > > it hasn't been ported up to 2.4 yet.
> > > I would guess the answer to that one will have to be a simple NO. :-)
> > >
> > > I'm sure when we get to it, there will be a new set challenges.
> >
> > i'm not shure about the current state in 2.4 - but it's definitely
> > in there ... don't know if it is working stable now i must admit
>
> From what I understand the maintainer has been "off doing other stuff"
> so the state is a little uncertain.
>
> It hasn't been tested and I suspect it won't work, certainly not with
> KIObuf io, but then again we don't have any lvm working with KIObuf io.
>
> The plan is to get XFS working with LVM first, and go from there.
For what it's worth, I gave XFS-over-raid5 a shot a few days ago, and
got a system hang (although still respondent to Magic-SysRq) a few
seconds after mounting the partition. I've been running the same
kernel with ext2 on that partition with no problems since then. I
haven't gotten around to testing XFS on my scratch non-RAID partition
yet, so I can't be sure that the breakage is specific to RAID rather
than some other peculiar local issue.
-- Michael
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