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Re: Using ReiserFS on raid1 devices (except /boot) advise anyone ??



On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Tom Vier wrote:

> make /boot ext2 and you can have a raid1 root. the debian installer has
> problems setting up persistent superblocks, though. i recommend
> installing to a sparce drive, then making the arrays, copy everything
> other, and install silo.
>
> i've used reiserfs on sparc for a while. never had any problems. i
> didn't stress it much, though. i haven't tried raid on sparc, but it
> should be endian clean (i think i've run it on ppc).

Can confirm that. I use reiserfs on top of LVM1 under which there is
software raid1 :) It's an Ultra 10 running Woody with custom 2.4.27
kernel. It serves mainly as a FTP server with load of about 250 GB a day.

-- Jan Houstek



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