> Howdy, > > I was wondering if anyone has experience or anything to say on the > following topics: > > 1. Linux 2.4.18 with rtl-3.1 on two disks as RAID-1 with _hardware_ RAID > controller.
running 2.4.18 with DAC960 on a PI-200 without any problems - did not notice any specific differences to 2.4.18-rtl3.1 on other non-raid systems. > > 2. Ditto with software RAID. > > 3. XFS-1.1 filesystem on linux-2.4.18-rtl-3.1. > (Patched with rt-2.4.18 patch, and then with the xfs patch from Silicon > graphics: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/) > > Basically - as you might guess from the questions - I am trying to get > a very fail-proof rtlinux system working (it is a automated > astronomical telescope control). I try to avoid long fscks on ext2 or > not completely automatic boot in due to a rescue shell (if something > happens, although there is UPS, frequent backups, etc, but still). > There is also hardware watchdog card in the PC, which resets it if does > not respond in time (and this also has to be avoided during long fsck). > you can reduce fsck problems a lot if you mount the system read-only (excluding any data storage partitions) and I would claim that moving any large data-storage to a remote system should be the better solution than trying to make a single node fail safe. Have you concidered using network block-devices + a read-only rtlinux box ? hofrat _______________________________________________ Rtl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www2.fsmlabs.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rtl
