Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:18:26 -0400,
Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org> a écrit :

hello,

> >> I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over
> >> softupdates?
> >
> 
> http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix2000/general/seltzer.html

gjournal can improve the performances in some cases (small files) :
http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-geom/2006-06/msg00013.html

Anyway there was no other way to avoid a long fsck (until SU+Journal
in 9.0).

Regards.