gjournal panic 7.0-RC1

[Ivan Voras]

Chris wrote:
>> AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try
>> doubling it until there are no more panics.
>>
>> If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it
>> "tuning errors"), only this time the space reserved for the on-disk
>> journal is too small, and the fast drives fill it up before data can be
>> transfered from the journal to the data area.
>>
>>
>>
> 
> To double it is to do another newfs and start from scratch again or
> can I somehow increase the size without losing the data on the drive?

If you use an external journal, you can re-create the journal keep the 
data, if you use an "inline" journal on the same drive as the file 
system (the default configuration), you need to re-create both the 
journal and the file system (newfs).

> Does a larger journal incease write speeds as I am finding them very
> poor around 60% of a sync + soft updates drive.

No. An external journal could help you to increase the performance.

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