From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric S. Johansson" Subject: Re: happy happy happy Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:28:51 -0500 Message-ID: <421E3903.5080303@harvee.org> References: <421D129C.3080404@harvee.org> <20050224164417.GA6129@us.ibm.com> <421E2D64.2040203@harvee.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Robin Green Cc: Jon Mason , xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.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 -- http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/view.html?pg=5 The result of the duopoly that currently defines "competition" is that prices and service suck. We're the world's leader in Internet technology - except that we're not. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click