Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:54:05 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Martin Hepworth <maxsec@gmail.com> Cc: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <legvalmont@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Availability of a journaling file system Message-ID: <1143125645.13828.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0603222250i6084e1aara126fdb3321b7ed1@mail.gmail.com> References: <97be9bec0603221420v7ac97162lc55d5f2013d50bdf@mail.gmail.com> <72cf361e0603222250i6084e1aara126fdb3321b7ed1@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 06:50 +0000, Martin Hepworth wrote: > Hi > > in freebsd this is called softupdates and can be enables using tunefs (see > the man page). > > If not quite journaling as it does things slightly differently, but achieves > many of the same effects, like reduced fsck time on boot. > > -- > martin > > On 3/22/06, Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont <legvalmont@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I've had some problems earlier this year due to FreeBSD-6.0 crashing > > after a few hours of execution (perhaps it's mal-functioning hd's dma, > > but - simply put - I can't install FreeBSD 2 or 3 times a day to find > > out! ^^). And so I thought of journaling file systems. > > > > I think XFS is being ported to FreeBSD, but last news on the official > > page (http://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigc/xfs/) dates from December > > 12th, 2005 (and it's still read-only). So... > > > > Is there a journaling file system (rw ready) available? Which one? > > > > Another question: how can I completly diable hd dma? -.-" > > > > -- > > []'s, > > Luiz Eduardo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" You can disable DMA with the atacontrol command: for example atacontrol mode ad0 pio4 I have a Maxtor 40GB which won't work in DMA mode with FreeBSD, although it seems fine with other OSes. There is a hefty perfomance hit, of course! -- Mike Jeays http://ca.geocities.com/mike.jeays@rogers.com
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