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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:43:41 -0700
From:      LI Xin <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GJournal
Message-ID:  <47041B1D.8060900@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <AFC6218B-22C8-4489-9390-C8D083B0E24A@nevada.net.nz>
References:  <AFC6218B-22C8-4489-9390-C8D083B0E24A@nevada.net.nz>

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Philip Murray wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I've got a 3TB volume that I really really want to avoid fscks on
> (they're taking 4-5hours on an exist 1.5TB volume) so Gjournal is
> looking good.
>=20
> Is it possible to make it only journal meta-data? Instead of data and
> meta-data (ie, like XFS, ext3 by default etc), it seems like you'd take=

> less of a performance hit due to not having to write all the data twice=
=2E

Not now.  gjournal now acts as a block-level journal provider which does
not distinguish between meta-data and file data.

> But I understand in this case after a crash you could end up with empty=

> files? (Due to the metadata being consistent but the data not? I've see=
n
> this happen with XFS before...)
>=20
> (I have tried ZFS, but just had two kmem too small panics after 5
> minutes... this is on an amd64 machine with 8GB of RAM)

Have you tried the recent -CURRENT snapshot and perhaps VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX
tuning?  It would make the situation much better.

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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