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Subject: Re: gjournal panic 7.0-RC1
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> AFAIK this means that the journal is too small for your machine - try
> doubling it until there are no more panics.
>
> If so, this is the same class of errors as ZFS (some would call it
> "tuning errors"), only this time the space reserved for the on-disk
> journal is too small, and the fast drives fill it up before data can be
> transfered from the journal to the data area.
>
>
>

To double it is to do another newfs and start from scratch again or
can I somehow increase the size without losing the data on the drive?
Does a larger journal incease write speeds as I am finding them very
poor around 60% of a sync + soft updates drive.

Chris