Adding gjournal to existing disks?

[Tony Holmes]

On +Jul 06, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Tony Holmes wrote:
> 
> >So lots of space free on the stripe. I read the man page for 7-Current but
> >it is unclear if a both the journal and data can exist in the same 
> >partition.
> 
> Only if the file system was created like that (because it's a hack - the 
> journal is still not a part of the file system but exists in the space 
> between the end of the file system and the end of the slice/partition).
> 
> If you want to add it later, you need to create a separate 
> slice/partition and put gjournal on it.

Thanks for the quick answer! I was hoping this wasn't the case but I 
had to be 100% certain.

Are there any tools to shrink a partition? :)

When I lost power on this system the mirrors weren't synced so the 
gmirror sync + fsync kept the system down for 1.5 hours - that hurt.


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Tony Holmes

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Crosswinds Internet Communications Inc.