gjournal and zfs, questions
Is gjournal and/or zfs stable enough for production-like usage yet? I've got a 3.5TB filesystem that I'd rather not have to fsck in case of a crash or power outage. I can live with running CURRENT on this box as long as I know the filesystem is stable. (I'd rather run RELENG_6, but zfs is only for current afaik.) When will gjournal and zfs be committed to the CVS tree? Will either of them be merged to STABLE? /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gjournal and zfs, questions
Daniel Eriksson wrote: When will gjournal and zfs be committed to the CVS tree? Will either of them be merged to STABLE? GJournal aready is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_journal.c?rev=1.9content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup It's unlikely they will be merged to 6-STABLE because they introduce lots of changes. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: gjournal and zfs, questions
Ivan Voras wrote: Daniel Eriksson wrote: When will gjournal and zfs be committed to the CVS tree? Will either of them be merged to STABLE? GJournal aready is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_journal.c?rev=1.9content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup It's unlikely they will be merged to 6-STABLE because they introduce lots of changes. That said there are patches for -STABLE although they are a little stale now, as changes have been made to stable, however last time i tried only cosmetic changes were needed (the patches wouldnt apply cleanly because the file(s) had changed but applying the rejected patches by hand worked fine, just look for rejects and see why its been rejected. Usually its because a line has been added to the file or removed and so the line number in the patch is wrong.) See Pawels patches at http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/ in particular http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/gjournal6_20061024.patch however also search the freebsd-geom and freebsd-current mailing lists for how to apply them and build with gjournal support (for a start Before applying the patch, create the following directories in your source directory: sbin/geom/class/journal sys/geom/journal sys/modules/geom/geom_journal ) That said I've a 6.2-RELEASE box thats got /var and /usr journaled and its been running happily for a month and a half. Give a scary sounding message in dmesg about GEOM_JOURNAL: Cannot suspend file system /usr (error=35). but this post http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-August/017894.html indicates its harmless and i havent seen any problems. zfs looks cool and i'm intending to try it once I get a spare machine to run -CURRENT on so i can apply the latest patchset Vince ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: gjournal and zfs, questions
Ivan Voras wrote: GJournal aready is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_j ournal.c?rev=1.9content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Thank you for the info! zfs looks more interesting, but having gjournal in the tree makes it more convenient. Any guess on when zfs will hit the regular CVS tree? /Daniel Eriksson ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gjournal and zfs, questions
Daniel Eriksson wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: GJournal aready is: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/journal/g_j ournal.c?rev=1.9content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Thank you for the info! zfs looks more interesting, but having gjournal in the tree makes it more convenient. Any guess on when zfs will hit the regular CVS tree? I don't know for sure, but I think the intention is for it to be ready for 7.0. Judging from the recent announcement message, it looks like most problems are solved so it might be soon. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature