GEOM_Journal - "Taste"-order

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 14 10:55:29 UTC 2010


On 10/13/10 14:25, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> Hello everybody.
>
> I'm facing a funny issue with GEOM_Journal and an ASUS MB with integrated
> Raid.
>
> For reason I cannot clearly understand, after creating an hardware mirror,
> the "standard" devices (ad0 and ad4 if I can remember correctly) didn't
> "disappear" and only a new device, ar0 appeared, representing the HW Mirror.
>
> I then geom_journaled a partition inside ar0, inserted
> geom_journal_load="YES" in the usual places but when the machine booted
> geom_journal found the journaling on ad0 instead of ar0 -- and actually
> started it!
>
> Obviously fstab was referring to ar0 and thus the boot stopped.
>
> I tried some different approaches but none worked. The only convenient way

Have you tried using "-h" argument to "gjournal label"? (you will need 
to create the gjournal on the ar0 device)





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