Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 27 January 2004 15:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:43:05PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
>> My guess is that software raid is stealing a few blocks from the
>> end of the partition,
>
>Yes, it does.  But JFS should get the right size from the gendisk
> anyway. Or did you create the raid with the filesystem already
> existant?  While that appears to work for a non-full ext2/ext3
> filesystem it's not something you should do because it makes the
> filesystem internal bookkeeping wrong and you'll run into trouble
> with any filesystem sooner or later.
>
I wonder if this discussion has anything to do with what we perceive 
as an excruciatingly long resync time?  Should the array be 
reformatted after startup with a new mkreiserfs in the event thats 
what we are running on a raid5?

If it exists, please point me to a good, maybe better than that which 
comes with mdtools, discussion, web site or whatever please.

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