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Re: [Xen-users] pvops 2.6.32 and raid 5

To: "Felix Kuperjans" <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] pvops 2.6.32 and raid 5
From: brian@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:39:01 -0600
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Thanks Felix.

You're yet the third to endorse Xen+Raid.

I'll chalk up the previous older posts I've read in the past to old
tech/bad cnfigs.

- Brian

> Hi Brian,
>
> I ran 2.6.32.16 (a few months later .18 and now .27) with RAID-0, RAID-1
> and a big RAID-5 volume (all across 3 disks, RAID-1 for /boot, RAID-0
> for temporary directories, Swap etc, RAID-5 for data) on three 1 TB SATA
> drives 24/7 without any problems.
> The only thing I encountered were problems with XFS; the domU crashed
> while I was using XFS on a RAID-0 (!) volume. All other filesystems had
> no problems so far, I think it is XFS-related and the XFS code has
> changed a lot around that time... (BTW, I did not test it again after
> 2.6.32.16).
>
> - Felix
>
> Am 24.02.2011 22:44, schrieb Brian Krusic:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> While I understand there can be issues with running Xen with Raid5
>> were domUs live on the raided partition, I've also read were the pvops
>> kernal (2.6.32) has solved some issues.
>>
>> Is it still recommended to run Xen on no more then a mirrored set or
>> is any one running on a Raid5 setup?
>>
>> Any wisdom is appreciated.
>>
>> - Brian
>>
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