On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:11, pesarif wrote: > 1. How big is the journal? 32M. It is possible to change this, but currently that requires recompiling your kernel (and running an altered mkreiserfs). Then a regular kernel won't mount them. It's painful enough that you don't want to do it.
Hans has announced plans to address this issue, I am looking forward to a version of ReiserFS that works on floppies. ;) > I have just made (today :)) a 600MB reiser 3.6 > partition in Mandrake 8.0 and the usuable space reported by df -h, was > 596MB. Isn't the journal 32MB because on my other system with a 5GB reiser > 3.6 parition, 32MB is "missing" in df -h. And also, will the journal be > larger with a larger filesystem? The journal is always the same size. As for the 600MB partition, are you certain that the partition was really 600M? Or did you just tell your fdisk program to make it 600M? Fdisk will always round up the sizes to the nearest "cylinder" and the difference can be 30M or more... > 2. How do I disable journal replay and save/restore the journal or delete > it completely? You can't. Ext3 has this functionality because it's an addition to Ext2 which doesn't have it. So you can switch between ext3 and ext2 by mounting it with a different driver. Also the journal is a file on ext3 so changing it's size is less invasive. We've all been hanging out for this for a long time. Unfortunately Hans has had other things to work on, no sponsor has demanded it, and no volunteer has come forward to do it. Maybe Hans will comment on where it is in the current schedule... PS It's an interesting co-incidence that we get two new users on the list from bigpond in the same week who both use Kmail 1.3... -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
