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> Ok Since I started this! .... I am seriously thinking of using raid 1 -
> two drives mirrored. ReiserFS is not supported in SW raid so that is out,
> but should I use ext2 or ext3? Can I use ext3 in sw raid? Is there any
> problem with using SW raid? It appears this has a write penalty but a
> read benefit - assuming linux optimizes the reads.
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> I will be using identical IDE drives on two separate IDE channels NO
> slaves.
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> Comments?
I've been using software raid for > 2 months and its great. I'm
using ext2 on it, though I'm thinking of converting them to
ext3. I have 2 IDE drives on a Promise Ultra/100 TX2, one is
a 20-gig Ultra66 and one is a 40 gig Ultra100 (NO slave drives).
I haven't tried root-raid though; the OS boots in a non-raid
partition and mounts the raid partitions.
The only problem I am having is that once in a while the kernel
spits out this error message:
Mar 3 07:14:28 XXXXXXX kernel: hde: timeout waiting for DMA
or some such and then the raid subsystem would then resync
the 2 disks. I think this is a hardware problem though.
The only other problem I have is that I am even *more* lazy to
backup my disks, since I know its on raid...
JondZ / E.Pike
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