Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265877AbUA1JY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:24:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265879AbUA1JY3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:24:29 -0500 Received: from cibs9.sns.it ([192.167.206.29]:53002 "EHLO cibs9.sns.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265877AbUA1JY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:24:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:24:14 +0100 (CET) From: venom@sns.it To: Christoph Hellwig cc: Dave Kleikamp , Florian Huber , JFS Discussion , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Jfs-discussion] md raid + jfs + jfs_fsck In-Reply-To: <20040127205324.A19913@infradead.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 23 On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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. > In most situation to create a new FS on a RAID1 MD is not an option. It happens that you have to mirror a partition, maybe alarge one, and it already had a filesystem on top of it. Then what should you do? backup, mirror and then restore? Sometimes it is not possible this too. Then you accept to deal with the possible problems... Luigi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/