On Dec 21, 2002 16:03 +0100, Norman Schmidt wrote: > On a 4 disk software RAID 5 I have two big devices (one 60 GB, one 180 > GB). I would like to give each an external journal on a 2 disk software > RAID 1 device and use data=journal. > > How big should each of the journals be? Depends on what you are doing. > Can I put both journals in one RAID 1 device (i.e. give both the same > device=/dev/mdwhatever or should/must I put them in two different > devices (which would have to be on the same two disks in any case) > /dev/mdwhatever1 and /dev/mdwhatever2? Currently, you need to put them on different block devices. At some (probably distant) time in the future it will be possible to share an external journal among filesystems, but I don't think anybody is working on that yet. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
