Hello John, In my case it's a Software RAID0. Promise FastTrack100 is not working as HW RAID 0 without a special driver. In general it's just an additional onboard ATA100 controller which reports to BIOS that it's HW RAID0 - Promise marketing scam. Regards. Alex On Saturday 05 May 2001 12:52 am, marsaro@interearth.com wrote:
Hi Alex;
I am not sure at all about the Promise card, that is an IDE thing right? RAID on HW is just that....the O/S in this case Linux will see the drives via the driver and the File system is on top of whatever partition you have.......what I mean here is that Reiser should not car about HW RAID no matter if that is 0-0+1-or5......software RIAD might be another thing altogether, but I have never used it and would not recommend it anyway :~)
I would point my finger at the IDE RAID device and/or driver before the F/S......
Regards,
Jon
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, Did somebody experienced Reiser FS crashes on RAID-0? I've got ASUS A7V133 mobo with onboard Promise FastTrack100 RAID 0 controller. I would advice anybody to purchase this shity controller. I created software RAID 0 array as a /dev/md0 with the chunk size of 32 and formated it as a ReiserFS partition. On the second day after the proper reboot I've noticed that kernel is reporting about missing nodes and files that exist but can't be stat-ed. I unmounted this RAID0 partition and ran reiserfsck which reported some inconsistances on the /dev/md0. Then I ran reiserfsck --rebuild-tree. After I mounted RAID 0 partition back I've noticed that some files are gone. I repeated mkraid /dev/md0 formated it again as a Reiser FS partition and reinstalled the system. Three days later I've got exactly the same results after the proper system reboot. Could somebody tell me please if Reiser FS is capable of working with RAID 0 at all. Are there any particular details I'm now aware of? What is the proper chunk size for RAID 0 with Reiser FS - 32, 16 or 8? Thank you in advance for any help or information. Regards. Alex
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