HEADS UP: SUJ Going in to head today

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:57:59 -1000 (HST)
Jeff Roberson <jroberson at jroberson.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Alex Keda wrote:
> 
> > try in single user mode:
> >
> > tunefs -j enable /
> > tunefs: Insuffient free space for the journal
> > tunefs: soft updates journaling can not be enabled
> >
> > tunefs -j enable /dev/ad0s2a
> > tunefs: Insuffient free space for the journal
> > tunefs: soft updates journaling can not be enabled
> > tunefs: /dev/ad0s2a: failed to write superblock
> 
> There is a bug that prevents enabling journaling on a mounted filesystem. 
> So for now you can't enable it on /.  I see that you have a large / volume 
> but in general I would also suggest people not enable suj on / anyway as 
> it's typically not very large.  I only run it on my /usr and /home 
> filesystems.
> 
> I will send a mail out when I figure out why tunefs can't enable suj on / 
> while it is mounted read-only.
> 

Jeff -
One thing which surprised me was that I couldn't reuse the existing
.sujournal files on my disks.  I did notice that there are now more
flags set on them.  Was that the reason?  Or were you just being
careful?

--
Gary Jennejohn