Hello!
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 04:57:04PM +0100, Luis Gregorio Muniz Rodriguez wrote:
> I have recently discovered that the journal can be placed on an external
> device (i.e, `mkreiserfs --journal-device <FILE>'), but I haven't found
> any doc about it.
If you do not use 2.5 kernels, you need to apply separate patch to your tree.
> I'm currently using ReiserFS on top of LVM partitions, and I am
> wondering if I can use the same shared journal device for a number of
> small partitions.
No, you cannot.
> Note that I'm not trying to move all the journals to the same device
> (this should be easy using `--journal-device' and `--journal-offset',
> isn't it?). Rather, I try to share the same 32Mb journal between small
> filesystems and/or filesystems with infrequent writes (such as </usr>,
> </usr/local>, </var/www>, and so on).
> Is that possible? And convenient?
This is not possible.
But you can divide these "shared" 32M into four separate parts
and use these with --journal-offset.
Bye,
Oleg
