Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard

[Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>]

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On 12/31/2004 02:39 AM, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In gmane.linux.raid Georg C. F. Greve <greve@fsfeurope.org> wrote:
> 
>>The message I saw on the remote console when it crashed with pure ext3
>>on raid5 was:
>>
>> Assertion failure in journal_start() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:271: "handle->h_transaction->t_journal == journal"
>>
> 
> Yes, well, don't put the journal on the raid partition. Put it
> elsewhere (anyway, journalling and raid do not mix, as write ordering
> is not - deliberately - preserved in raid, as far as I can tell).

Thats a very new claim. I never ever heard of that. I have a lot of
boxes running with software raid (1 or 5) and they run either XFS or
ext3 on it, and since one year I never had a single problem (and they
all use 2.6.7 or 2.6.8.1 kernels).

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