Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Daniel, > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:05:16PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: >>The user should be able to specify slot by slot which >>device the journal is on, if it is not on the main volume. This is just >>the logical extension of the Ext3 scheme. > > To be honest, that sounds a little bit like overkill to me. > > For example, I was imagining that the user could create a seperate, rootless > file system on the journal device - similar to how we do heartbeat only file > systems. The normal file system would have the journal file system UUID > stored in it's superblock. This way mount.ocfs2 could find the proper disk > on the system and pass it along to the file system. If we had multiple > possible journal devices, it would at least mean a much larget set of UUID's > to store, necessitating a seperate area on disk for them. I'm sure there are > other implications as well.
Hi Mark, Why do you want to wrap the separate journals in a filesystem instead of just being devices? > Thanks for explaining your proposed setup. What are you using to mirror the > devices? DDRaid over NBD or iSCSI, probably NBD (which leads the performance race at the moment). Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
