On Apr 13 Kurt Fitzner wrote: >I have a raid5 array on my web server for which I am currently >considering a move to ext3. I want to use an external journal to >improve performance. > >Since the external journal would reside on a drive that is not >participating in the raid array, I'm wondering what the behavior of an >ext3 filesystem is should the device an external journal is on should >fail. If it reverts to ext2 behavior upon failure, then I can justify >using a non-raid device for an external journal. There could be metadata which is only in the journal, so failure probably means reboot + full fsck, so you may as well use ext2 if your machine doesn't otherwise crash. Far preferable, I think, would be to put your journal on a RAID 1 pair. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
