Re: Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-12 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:21:01PM -0500, John Nielsen wrote: I have a few questions for pjd (or anyone else) about using gjournal, particularly when used with gmirror. 1) I'm running 6-STABLE and plan to test with gjournal6_20061030.patch (from the mailing list; updated version of

Re: Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
John Nielsen wrote: 2) When using gjournal and for a gmirror volume, does the journal need to be mirrored as well to maintain redundancy? If so, when storing the journal on Yes, and to maintain consistency. If your machine dies while data is still in journal and not yet committed to

Re: Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-11 Thread Vasil Dimov
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 15:30:06 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: John Nielsen wrote: [...] is it better to mirror at the slice level (journal and fs on different partitions in the same mirror) or at the partition level (journal and fs each have their own mirror) or does it matter? It

Re: Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-11 Thread Craig Boston
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:21:01PM -0500, John Nielsen wrote: 5) Finally, how dangerous is this code? I realize it's experimental and only plan to use it with data that has recent backups, but how much should I worry about it blowing up my system or corrupting my files? Just my personal

Best practices for using gjournal with gmirror?

2007-01-10 Thread John Nielsen
I have a few questions for pjd (or anyone else) about using gjournal, particularly when used with gmirror. 1) I'm running 6-STABLE and plan to test with gjournal6_20061030.patch (from the mailing list; updated version of 20061024 that applies cleanly). Is there a better/newer version for