gvinum & gjournal

[Brian McCann]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Yoshihiro Ota <ota at j.email.ne.jp> wrote:
> Try 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/gvinum/array1 bs=1M count=10'.
>
> Zero clearing the head of disk helps sometimes.
>
> You may want to add a new disk or create a partition for the journaling
> area.  Journaling on raid5 sounds overkill.
>
> Hiro

Tried that...no help.  Sorry...left that out of my original overview.

I'm doing journaling so that I theoretically never have to fsck.  It's
a 4-drive Intel appliance, SS4200-EHW, so adding a disk for the
journal is out of the question.  It's only got 512MB ram ATM, (2GB
max), so even fscking something that large (4.1T) could potentially
fill up the RAM, not to mention it'd take hours.

Thanks for the input though!
--Brian

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