Re: happy happy happy

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.org>]

Robin Green wrote:
> I am probably barking up the wrong tree, but did you use a file-backed 
> device (i.e. file: instead of phys: in the xen conf file) for any of 
> your reiserfs partitions? I have heard from multiple sources that 
> journalled filesystems (and that includes ext3) do not play well with 
> file-backed mounts (although with User Mode Linux it is said to work OK 
> if the host writes to the file using O_SYNC).
> 

nope.  raid1 -> lvm2 managed partitions -> filesystem

reasonably ordinary, reasonably vanilla stuff that just doesn't want to 
work right (auto detection of raid failed, LVM and raid array creation 
in wrong order)

right now, if I were to bark up the wrong tree, I would get a mouthful 
of acorns...

---eric

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