On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:38:11 -0400, "Jim Paris" <jim@xxxxxxxx> said: > > Thus, if you have used RAID-6 and have good or bad experiences, I'd > > like to know them as soon as possible. > > Just tried setting up a RAID-6 on a new server, and I'm seeing > complete filesystem corruption. > # cd /mnt/root ; tar --one-file-system -cf - / | tar --preserve -xvf - ; > cd / > # umount /mnt/root > # reiserfsck /dev/md1 # <-- many, many errors My reading of things was that /proc and any in-use mount points needed to be handled specially when using tar to do the copy. Then again, the --one-file-system argument could be taking care of that; I haven't heard of using it. Is it OK to use tar on / including /proc and /dev like this? cpio, cp, tar - I've seen HOWTOs use all three to copy / ! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
