Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:48:33 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Anyway there was no other way to avoid a long fsck (until SU+Journal in 9.0). Speaking of SU+J: I do happen to be running 9.0-BETA1, and am seeing output from fsck where it at first appears it's going to take

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-19 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:43:41 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net a écrit : Hello, I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates? If the file system is large, it avoids a very long fsck. I use gjournal since 7.2 and never had any problem (and I always

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-19 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org wrote: Le Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:43:41 -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net a écrit : Hello, I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates?

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-19 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:18:26 -0400, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org a écrit : hello, I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates? http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix2000/general/seltzer.html gjournal can improve the performances in some cases (small

Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? You can't really(it can be done but requires exception circumstance). If you didn't take these steps during initial install

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread perryh
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? Yes, provided the existing filesystem is not using the last block of its provider (partition), but you'll have to put the journal on a separate provider from