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Cc: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs
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Rolf G Nielsen wrote:
> Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
>> Manolis Kiagias escribió:
>>> I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing 
>>> UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC:
>>>
>>> http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> It focuses on detailing an easy to follow, repeatable procedure, to 
>>> install FreeBSD on a typical PC and enable journaling on /usr and 
>>> possibly /var.
>>> I am using this same procedure on my systems.
>>>
>>> I welcome all feedback, please send me any comments, suggestions and 
>>> corrections.
>> Nice work like the other one! I won't have time till Monday, but I'd 
>> be more then happy to review and commit this article if you can send 
>> me the sources.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gábor Kövesdán
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> The man page for gjournal does not say what unit to use when 
> specifying the journal size with the -s option. Sectors? GB? Anything 
> else? Or is there a default (say sectors) that can be changed by using 
> a suffix, like -s 10G?
You are right, although it does say the default is 1Gb.
However the jsize option is only available when both data  journal are 
stored on the same provider, and the article does not deal with this, as 
it uses separate providers for data and journal.
I could give this a try on my virtual setup and see what kind of unit is 
used.