On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Dan Naumov<dan.nau...@gmail.com> wrote: > You need to mount your /dev/ad6s1d.journal as /usr and not > /dev/ad6s1d, because this is the new device provided to you by GEOM. > > - Dan Naumov > > > > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Garrett Cooper<yanef...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Garrett Cooper<yanef...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Pawel, ATA, and Stable folks, >>> >>> This time when I did a reinstall I took the bullet and tried to >>> use gjournaling instead of softupdates. The unfortunate thing is that >>> I can't seem to get it to work. >>> >>> Here's the procedure that I'm trying to follow (based off of [1]): >>> - sysinstall from scratch with a minimal distribution. This creates >>> /usr // /dev/ad6s1d as UFS2 with softupdates disabled. >>> - Pull latest stable sources. Rebuild kernel (with `options >>> GEOM_JOURNAL'), world, install kernel, then world after reboot. >>> - gjournal label -f ad6s1d ad6s2d >>> - mount /dev/ad6s1d /usr # That works (I think...), but prints out the >>> error message below: >>> >>> GEOM_JOURNAL: [flush] Error while writing data (error=1) >>> ad6s2d[WRITE(offset=512, length=6656)] >>> >>> gjournal status says: >>> Name Status Components >>> ad6s1d.journal N/A ad6s1d >>> ad6s2d >>> >>> Some issues I noticed: >>> >>> - GJOURNAL ROOT (something) loops infinitely if the device can't be >>> found; this should probably time out and panic / exit if a device >>> becomes unavailable (depends on fstab values in the final 2 fields no >>> doubt). I did this by accident when I forgot to add iir statically to >>> the kernel. >>> - The LiveCD doesn't fully support gjournal (userland's there, kernel >>> support isn't). Kind of annoying and counterproductive... >>> - Existing journal partitions disappeared when I upgraded by accident >>> from 7.2-RELEASE to 8-CURRENT (silly me copied my srcs.sup file from >>> my server with label=.). That was weird... >>> - When I use gjournal label with an existing filesystem I _must_ use -f. >>> >>> Any help with this endeavor would be more than appreciated, as I want >>> to enable this functionality before I move on to installing X11, as >>> nvidia-driver frequently hardlocks the desktop (or has in the past). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> -Garrett >>> >>> [1] >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/gjournal-desktop/article.html >> >> And to answer another potential question, I've tried mounting both >> with -o rw,async and with -o rw. >> Thanks! >> -Garrett
Hi Dan, I'm doing that right now =\... orangebox# mount /dev/ad6s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad6s1d.journal on /usr (ufs, asynchronous, local) /dev/ad6s1e on /usr/home (ufs, local) /dev/ad6s1f on /var (ufs, local) Thanks! -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
