Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:39:08 +0100 From: "Niels S. Eliasen" <nse@delfi-konsult.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal on powerpc ? Message-ID: <9B79B417-E320-4CCA-A86E-1C1F5B2E5640@delfi-konsult.com> In-Reply-To: <20081217074545.ENB16009@dommail.onthenet.com.au> References: <20081217074545.ENB16009@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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Hi Peter Now... after quite a bit of work... I have a gjournal'ed file- system.... while we are still waiting for ZFS/HammerFS .... (testing the gjournaled file-system doing the good-ole CTRL-ALT- POWER... really shines! how performance is otherwise.... i still need to figure out) just for the benefit of others going along: It is MUCH easier if you have several partitions, where you have a working FreeBSD system, and then setup the other partitions with gjournal..... and do follow the "man gjournal" guidelines.... even the references on the FreeBSD docs page are out-of-date.... And in the process... I noticed that the 7.1-BETA 2 I had installed from 3-4 weeks ago... was outdated! ;-) a few observations: 1. how do you set the hardware clock on PowerPC ?? (dead-annoying that before getting ntpdate/ntpd running... all dates on the filesystems defaults to something in 1904 !!!) 2. speaking of ntpdate/ntpd.... "named" would like to start before having set the date properly, which forces "named" to flunk out because of the date.... how to circumvent this ? 3. 7.1-BETA2 complains on the logfiles in "/var/log" and they do not created correctly... and have to be "touch"'ed accordingly... 4. I have a problem with the "locate" command... it appears that the updatedb produces gibberish... and have tried to re-create the locate db database... but still no luck.... 5. How do make a recovery CD for PowerPC ??? (it would have made my life a lot easier, having dump/restore easily available.... and principally the rest of the FreeBSD available) 6. Is there a "gpart" howto somewhere ? I understand the reason for having gpart, but pdisk is easier to use.... ;-) There are probably quite a number of PR's that needs/could be created by this... but I honestly do not know how do this.... Den 16/12/2008 kl. 22.45 skrev Peter Grehan: >> anyone knows if there are any "specialties" with regard to >> gjournal and FreeBSD on PowerPC?? >> or anyone who has this runnning at all ?? > > Niels, you're always at the bleeding edge :) I've not run > gjournal, but I would hazard it should work fine. > > later, > > Peter. kind regards nse "Ach, crivens, what a wee snotter....." Quote from "The Wee Free Men" by Terry Pratchett
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