I'm moving this discussion to freebsd-questions, which is probably a more suitable forum (if not freebsd-geom). I apologize for the intrusion and the subsequent crosspost.
Anthony Chavez wrote: > Hello freebsd-fs, > > I'm trying to get gjournal working on a "removable" hard disk. I use > the term loosely, because I'm using a very simple eSATA enclosure: an > AMS Venus DS5 [1]. > > If I swap out disks, atacontrol cap ad0 seems sufficient enough to > detect the new drive: the reported device model, serial number, firmware > revision, and CHS values change as one would expect. > > My interpretation of [2] section 5.3 and gjournal(8) is that the > following sequence of commands should ensure me that all write buffers > have been flushed and bring the system to a point where it is safe to > remove a disk. > > sync; sync; sync > gjournal sync > umount /dev/ad0s1.journal > gjournal stop ad0s1.journal > > However, once they are executed, /dev/ad0s1.journal disappears and when > I swap out the disk it doesn't come back. The only way I've found to > bring it back is atacontrol detach ata0; atacontrol attach ata0, which > doesn't seem like a wise thing to do if I have another device on the > same channel. > > My question is, do I need to issue gjournal stop before I swap disks? > And if so, is there any way that I can avoid the atacontrol > detach/attach cycle that would need to take place before any mount is > attempted so that /dev/ad0s1.journal appears (if in the drive inserted > at the time does in fact utilize gjournal; I may want to experiment with > having disks with either gjournal or soft updates)? > > And while I'm on the subject, are the (gjournal) syncs commands > preceeding umount absolutely necessary in the case of removable media? > > [1] http://www.american-media.com/product/external/ds/ds.html > > [2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/gjournal-desktop/article.html -- Anthony Chavez http://hexadecagram.org/ mailto:a...@hexadecagram.org xmpp:a...@hexadecagram.org
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