From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 08:46:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0BDA16A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5976F13C44B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gcubfg-freebsd-geom@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8BMQ-0008EN-9o for freebsd-geom@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:18 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:18 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:05 +0200 Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <46900ED9.1060206@vwsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8F14C00BD25DC2BB1F021125" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <46900ED9.1060206@vwsoft.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: gjournal size reservation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:46:22 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8F14C00BD25DC2BB1F021125 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Volker wrote: > Ok, short after asking my questions, I figured it out myself. gjournal > is responding with an error message when trying to use the same area > for more than one journal. Will this change one time in the future? Pawel is authoritative on this, but no, I don't think it will change.=20 It's because gjournal is so separate from UFS. > hmm, this calculation sounds like it's valid for busy server machines > but is it valid as a general rule of thumb? On my typical desktop (and > even on my typical router/proxy/mailserver etc), there's not that much > traffic on the disk bus so I would tend to use a smaller size (< 1GB).= I asked Pawel about this once, and he recommended against it since you=20 might get a panic if you get a burst of activity on the drive that=20 exceeds journal areas. --------------enig8F14C00BD25DC2BB1F021125 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGk0dOldnAQVacBcgRAkcgAJ9EvH57Ci7hA/wS18JmOpuu/lS0rACfVRHJ cG0hwT0+J5rZLFBZRj2161s= =pfHF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8F14C00BD25DC2BB1F021125--