Carl wrote:
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
I have some setups were gjournal was put on device rather the on
partition, i.e.:
[umgah] ~> gmirror status
Name Status Components
mirror/umgah0 COMPLETE ad0
ad1
[umgah] ~> gjournal status
Name Status Components
mirror/umgah0.journal N/A mirror/umgah0
[umgah] ~> glabel status
Name Status Components
ufs/umgah0root N/A mirror/umgah0.journala
label/umgah0swap N/A mirror/umgah0.journalb
ufs/umgah0usr N/A mirror/umgah0.journald
ufs/umgah0var N/A mirror/umgah0.journale
Does the above suggest that you've ended up with individual journal
providers for each partition anyway? If so, where are they and have you
really achieved anything functionally different? Are they at the end of
their individually associated partitions or all together somewhere else?
Has the ill-advised journaled small partition issue been successfully
overcome through what you've done?
First, there is only one journal - for /dev/mirror/umgah0 and it is
named /dev/mirror/umgah0.journal. Anything else is just a bsdlabel
partitions, there are four of 'em.
[umgah] ~> mount
/dev/ufs/umgah0root on / (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/md0 on /tmp (ufs, asynchronous, local)
/dev/ufs/umgah0var on /var (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal)
/dev/ufs/umgah0usr on /usr (ufs, asynchronous, local, noatime, gjournal)
devfs on /var/named/dev (devfs, local)
And yes, mirror autosynchronization is turned off, gjournal takes care
of that too.
It's not stated in manual, but gjournal is typically transparent for
any type of access, just in case of UFS file system is marked as
journaled so any metadata writes can be distinguished from data
writes. Without that gjournal does literally nothing.
And what does this mean for your swap partition?
Just nothing, it's just swap. It can't be journaled.
Laszlo Nagy wrote earlier:
Another tricky question: why would you journal a SWAP partition?
Volodymyr, does your assertion that gjournal does nothing when a file
system is not UFS mean that there is no penalty with regard to your swap
partition despite the existence of "mirror/umgah0.journalb"?
I haven't seen any perfomance decrease in this configuration. And
according to manual and articles about gjournal it should work this way.
Any chance you'd like to share your command sequence for constructing
your gmirror'd and gjournal'd filesystem, Volodymyr? :-)
If we have two disks (ad0, ad1) it should look like this:
> gmirror label -b load -n umgah0 ad1
We are getting all drive gmirrored without synchronization (we don't
need it - journal would take care of any discrepancies) and with load
balance (load was fixed not so long ago in stable and should be fine to
go with).
> gjournal label mirror/umgah0
We are creating a journal on top of our gmirror. It eats 1G from the end
of the disks and gives us the rest to use.
> bsdlabel -wB mirror/umgah0.journal
We are writing the standard bsdlabel to the disk and making it bootable.
After that we will get one partition 'a'.
<spam>
Yes, no fdisk. I don't think this old piece of rough junk is ever needed
on machine running FreeBSD solely. It just takes space, it requires
compatibility to forgotten-and-abandoned standards and gives nothing
more. You have your server dual-booting Windows or Linux? This is the
only case you need fdisk for.
</spam>
> bsdlabel -e mirror/umgah0.journal
Now we are splitting our journal to some partitions. I did it this way:
# /dev/mirror/umgah0.journal:
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 524288 16 4.2BSD
b: 16777216 * swap
c: 779325614 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part,
don't edit
d: 33554432 * 4.2BSD
e: * * 4.2BSD
After that we can format this filesystems:
> newfs -J -L umgah0root /dev/mirror/umgah0.journala
> newfs -J -L umgah0var /dev/mirror/umgah0.journald
> newfs -J -L umgah0usr /dev/mirror/umgah0.journale
And label the swap:
> glabel label umgah0swap /dev/mirror/umgah0.journalb
You can skip all this glabel thing, I just prefer to have slim fstab, as
slim as possible.
<fstab>
/dev/label/umgah0swap none swap sw 0 0
md /tmp mfs rw,-s1024m,-S,-oasync 0 0
/dev/ufs/umgah0root / ufs rw,async,noatime 0 1
/dev/ufs/umgah0var /var ufs rw,async,noatime 0 2
/dev/ufs/umgah0usr /usr ufs rw,async,noatime 0 2
</fstab>
There's a lot more here to describe from moving system to newly created
partitions to inserting and rebuilding our first disk to gmirror. All
this issues are described in handbook or other articles found on the net.
--
Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.
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