From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 23 14:54:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEA9C16A422 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:54:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: from smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B86BD43D69 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:54:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mj001@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 17320 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2006 14:54:08 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=dUZhIkVp16LFk0vQ5eHsTwsrdJSKlVVbVwQ1oAqiofgb3A7+SMUzLm8yuaYvJ/RwvY681y6hqn1UC/h0BWcZmGIGSEXCb8puxlcA1vhrNwefF8Gexnex54f9+XbdXw0otwzY9YiR5WGbNEZ4ssSMDf2lkKjvg8kPhLZqWyEFXxk= ; Received: from unknown (HELO chaucer.jeays.ca) (mj001@rogers.com@72.139.51.96 with plain) by smtp101.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2006 14:54:07 -0000 From: Mike Jeays To: Martin Hepworth In-Reply-To: <72cf361e0603222250i6084e1aara126fdb3321b7ed1@mail.gmail.com> References: <97be9bec0603221420v7ac97162lc55d5f2013d50bdf@mail.gmail.com> <72cf361e0603222250i6084e1aara126fdb3321b7ed1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:54:05 -0500 Message-Id: <1143125645.13828.7.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Luiz Eduardo Guida Valmont , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Availability of a journaling file system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:54:10 -0000 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 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