gjournal questions

[Kevin Kramer]

it's working great now that i've redone the whole thing

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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 13:56:
> On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 10:16:09AM -0500, Kevin Kramer wrote:
>   
>> I've already redone the whole thing. here are the steps i took
>>
>> umount /scr09
>> umount /scr10
>> gjournal stop da2.journal
>> gjournal stop da4.journal
>>
>> ** had not done this on the first attempt
>> newfs /dev/da1
>> newfs /dev/da3
>>     
>
> This is not needed.
>
>   
>> gjournal label -v /dev/da2 /dev/da1
>> gjournal label -v /dev/da4 /dev/da3
>>
>> newfs -J -L scr09 /dev/da2.journal
>> newfs -J -L scr10 /dev/da4.journal
>>
>> mount /scr09
>> mount /scr10
>>     
>
> Don't know how your /etc/fstab looks like, but you definiately should
> use 'async' mount option, which is safe to use with gjournaled file
> systems.
>
>   
>> it is looking much better so far. before, i was getting this in the debug (only on /scr10) and my mountd process was always the top process
>>
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: fsync: giving up on dirty
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: 0xc9ee1bb0: tag devfs, type VCHR
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 198 mountedher
>> e 0xc9ebfb00
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: flags ()
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: v_object 0xc9fbb528 ref 0 pages 5933
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xc9bd4
>> 180 (pid 38)
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: dev ufs/scr10
>> Sep  1 00:00:11 donkey kernel: GEOM_JOURNAL: Cannot suspend file system /scr10 (
>> error=35).
>>     
>
> It happens sometimes under load, haven't investigated yet what exactly
> is happening, but you can ignore it for now, it's harmless, it just
> means journal switch will be done a bit later.
>
> BTW. 8GB for journals is much. You should not need more than 2GB
> probably. Of course it will work with 8GB just fine.
>
>