Re: mbr can't open /boot on RaidFrame

Jeff Rizzo <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Marcin Jessa wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:59:52 -0800
> Jeff Rizzo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> Marcin Jessa wrote:
>>     
>>> I've four aditional questions:
>>> 1. Can raid partition have softdep on?
>>>   
>>>       
>> yes
>>     
>
> Will this put the file system on RAID 1 disks in more risk if the computer gets 
> suddenly shot off (power loss, damaged power supply) ?
>
>   

People have varying levels of success with softdep.  I haven't had a
serious problem with it in quite some time, but others tell a different
story.  YMMV.
>>> 2. Can I use FFSv2 instead of FFSv1 creating file systems on the raid devices?
>>>   
>>>       
>> yes
>>     
>
> Why http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-rf.html#chap-rf-setup-filesystems
> tells to use FFSv1 instead of FFSv2 ? Is FFSv2 experimental/unstable/slower/xyz than FFSv1 ?
>   

FFSv2 has larger inodes, and can support larger filesystems.  It also
does some things faster (like newfs).  It won't be compatible with some
systems' boot ROMs that expect ffsv1, though.

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