Messages in this thread |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:08:32 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: Define conflict between ext3 and raid patches against 2.2.19 |
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On Sunday September 16, mfedyk@matchmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to setup a 2.2 kernel that I can use for comparison to the latest > 2.4 kernels I've been testing, but I came accross a little problem with the > patches I've been trying to combine. > > I've already applied: > ide.2.2.19.05042001.patch > linux-2.2.19.kdb.diff > linux-2.2.19.ext3.diff > > And now I'm trying to apply raid-2.2.19-A1, and I get one reject in > include/linux/fs.h.
You should be aware that ext3 (and other journalling filesystems) do not work reliably over RAID1 or RAID5 in 2.2. Inparticular, you can get problems when the array is rebuilding/resyncing.
But if you only plan to use ext3 with raid0 or linear, you should be fine.
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