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Subject: Re: Problems with journal?
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On 12/23/-58 20:59, Giulio Ferro wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed">I'm experiencing very serious delay issues
> in 2 production servers.
> 
> The server are dual intel quad core
> o.s. : freebsd 7 stable (yesterday) amd64, mfi driver for 2 physical
> controllers:
> 1) two sas disks in mirror (mfi0)
> 2) one dell md1000 disk enclosure with 15 sata disks in raid 60 (total
> ~7 TB) (mfi1)
> 
> I created a single partition for the second disk, I put the geom_journal
> on it,
> I formatted it with ufs and mounted it on /data directory.
> 
> from /etc/fstab
> /dev/mfid1.journal      /data           ufs     rw,async        2       0
> 

Giulio,

I'm wondering about the device name "mfid1.journal". Please show us your
partitioning scheme and output of ``gjournal list''.

Volker