gmirror+gjournal, newfs -J: can't figure out file system partition

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote:

BS> Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> writes:
BS> 
BS> > I can't do a newfs for gmirror+gjournal at two days old amd64-current:
BS> 
BS> Hm, even gjournal is not newfs'ed:
BS> -----
BS> tba# gjournal label ad8
BS> tba# gjournal load
BS> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 2321310154: ad8 contains data.
BS> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal 2321310154: ad8 contains journal.
BS> GEOM_JOURNAL: Journal ad8 clean.
BS> tba# newfs -J ad8.journal
BS> newfs: /dev/ad8.journal: can't figure out file system partition
BS> -----

well, what if you create BSD partition inside it:

bsdlabel -Bw ad8
gjournal ad8a
gjournal load
newfs -J ad8a.journal

?


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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