journaling filesystem

Rong-en Fan grafan at gmail.com
Mon Oct 27 15:09:45 UTC 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>wrote:

> martinko <gamato at users.sf.net> wrote:
>  > Rong-en Fan wrote:
>  > > In NetBSD, they now have metadata journaling support, see
>  > >
>  > > http://www.netbsd.org/changes/#wapbl
>  > >
>  > > I'm not a fs guru, I just want to know what are the status of
>  > > BluFFS and UFS journaling support which were mentioned
>  > > in recent years.
>  >
>  > This is very interesting!  I can imagine this would be the way for
>  > systems where ZFS is not an option but SU are reaching their limits.
>
> Have you had a look at gjournal(8)?


Actually, gjournal has the problem with fast write load. It panics if the
journal overflows...  I was told by pjd@ that if I have been played with the
sysctls and it still overflows, then there is nothing we can do...

Regards,
Rong-En Fan


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