[Fedora-xen] Re: fsck.ext3 -a /dev/hda1

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:10 +0100, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   the virtual device seen by the xen kernel will be sda1, not the physical
> > drive, so replacing this is just wrong.
> 
> You can in the /etc/xen/*config files pick either ide or scsi emulation for
> xen. Is there a preference for scsi? I've always used ide so far, since in
> general that gives less problems and dependancies (eg on initrd features).
> Is one faster/better/more reliable/ then the other?

In general, I'd suggest doing neither and instead using the LANANA
approved /dev/xvd devices.

If you pretend with either IDE or SCSI, the xen block driver does
heinous things with stealing block majors and I wouldn't expect this
support to stay as some of the Xen drivers start to move upstream

Jeremy

Jeremy