gjournal questions

[Kevin Kramer]

we left the journaling devices raw. do i need to newfs the journaling 
device? is eveything else ok besides the newfs of the daX.journal?


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Kevin Kramer
Sr. Systems Administrator
512.418.5725
Centaur Technology, Inc.
www.centtech.com



Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote the following on 09/01/06 06:16:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:01:34PM -0500, Kevin Kramer wrote:
>   
>> Pavel,
>>
>> running 6.1-stable with these patches
>> rebuilt kernel/world as of 8/28 @ 2p CST w/ these patches
>>
>> gjournal6_20060808.patch
>> vfs_subr.c.3.patch
>>
>> the backend RAID presents 4 luns, this is how we config'd it.
>> da1 - 8G
>> da2 - ~897G
>> da3 - 8G
>> da4 - ~897G
>>
>> da2/4 have been partitioned in FreeBSD, then we did the following
>>
>> gjournal label -v /dev/da2 /dev/da1
>> gjournal label -v /dev/da4 /dev/da3
>> newfs -U -L "scr09" /dev/da2.journal
>> newfs -U -L "scr10" /dev/da4.journal
>>
>> so  1 -8 G journal for each data device.
>>     
>
> Hmm, using SU with gjournal is really bad choice and you didn't tell
> file system that it is on gjournaled device. Try:
>
> 	# newfs -J -L scr0X /dev/daX.journal
>
>