From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 12:45:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383CB1065675; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:45:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nse@delfi-konsult.com) Received: from perseus.delfi-konsult.com (smtp.hoerhavegaard.dk [87.58.191.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BF728FC1A; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:45:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nse@delfi-konsult.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by perseus.delfi-konsult.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AB45DC13; Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:39:09 +0100 (CET) From: "Niels S. Eliasen" To: Peter Grehan In-Reply-To: <20081217074545.ENB16009@dommail.onthenet.com.au> References: <20081217074545.ENB16009@dommail.onthenet.com.au> Message-Id: <9B79B417-E320-4CCA-A86E-1C1F5B2E5640@delfi-konsult.com> X-Custom-Header: Yo! this is my X-Face Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:39:08 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gjournal on powerpc ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:45:25 -0000 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 even the references on the FreeBSD docs page are out-of-date....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 was outdated!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