Hi Mithun! I have no idea about RAIDx, but my experience with LVM has been terrible. I had converted part of my home system to a reiserfs-on-LVM system. It works fine as such. I generally use that parition for all my software dumps. However, that was in kernel 2.4.8. Now when I tried to upgrade my kernel to a more recent version, the new LVM code could not recognise the partition! So I am stuck in my wayyy-old kernel till I get an external backup option.
I am not sure about reiserfs either. While back home I havent faced a problem as such. In office since my box is used for kernel related development , it keeps crashing frequently. My home partition is pure reiserfs.From time to time I have lost files after a reboot. They have not disappeared, but they got overwritten by some other nearby files. And since it is generally the source files getting overwritten by object code files, I have to make sure that I make a backup before running my code. My advice is, do not use the LVM/Reiserfs code till it has stabilised. The kernel changelogs reveal that still several bugfixes are happening to the LVM and reiserfs code. Give it a few months and then use it. - Sandip On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 06:15:24PM +0530, Mithun Bhattacharya spoke out thus: > Just a followup on my initial post about converting a live server from a > non RAID partition to RAID0. > > 1. Has anyone done a conversion to linear mode RAID and done any stress > testing on it ? > 2. What about LVM - anyone used it - more specifically converted a > running server to LVM remotely ? > 3. The RAID howto says RAID0 works efficiently only on equal sized > partition or the space available is equal to the number of RAID > partitions times the smallest partition. Is it still true ?? > > > > > Mithun > > ================================================ > To un/subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'un/subscribe' in > subject header > Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org > ================================================= -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandipb @ bigfoot.com http://www.sandipb.net ---------------------------- ================================================ To un/subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'un/subscribe' in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
