UFS Journaling gone south

[Mike Barnard]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq at gmail.com>wrote
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>> Prior to rebooting, I checked and I did have da0s1f.journal and
>> da0s1g.journal and the da0s2d and da0s2e devices, after the reboot and the
>> panic, I check /dev and the seem to have reverted back to da0s1f and
>> da0s1g... and da0s2d and da0s2e have also gone AWOL... :-w
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>> fortunately, this is a new installation on which I want to test journal
>> devices. I'll do this again, reserving some sectors on both partitions.
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> I must admit, this has me hands down. I have entered custom newfs flags on
> sysinstall (-r 2, 4, and 8).
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> With a test on these sector sizes to be reserved at the end of the disk,
> gjournal label da0s1f da0s2d still says that I need to use -f to overwrite.
> I do so and end up with journal devices, but when I reboot... the journal
> devices and the journal providers are missing.
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> I have even done -J flag on the newfs options in sysinstall but I end up
> with the same results... no journal devices are created and I end up with a
> kernel panic and into single usermode. There are no journal devices created.
> Mounting the disks fails with: warning: GJOURNAL flag on fs but no gjournal
> provider below.
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> Am I doing all this wrong, Am I missing something?
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I have redone this setup with FreeBSD 8.0 STABLE but I get the same results.
My da0s1f.journal and da0s1g.journal disappear and I get this:

mount: /dev/da0s1g.journal : No such file or directory
mount: /dev/da0s1f.journal : No such file or directory
mount: /dev/da0s1g.journal : No such file or directory

While in single usermode, an ls /dev still shows that da0s2* are not
present.

Is there a particular reason I'd have the journal devices vanish? Is there a
solution for this?




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Mike

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