Re: PROBLEM: Kernel 2.6.10 crashing repeatedly and hard

Michael Tokarev
2004-12-30T19:51:03Z

Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> In gmane.linux.raid Georg C. F. Greve <greve@fsfeurope.org> wrote:
>
> 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).

This is a sort of a nonsense, really. Both claims, it seems.
I can't say for sure whenever write ordering is preserved by
raid -- it should, and if it isn't, it's a bug and should be
fixed. Nothing else is wrong with placing journal into raid
(the same as the filesystem in question). Suggesting to remove
journal just isn't fair: the journal is here for a reason.
And, finally, the kernel should not crash. If something like
this is unsupported, it should refuse to do so, instead of
crashing randomly.

/mjt