From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 13:04:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7B116A4E1; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:04:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: from mail.garage.freebsd.pl (arm132.internetdsl.tpnet.pl [83.17.198.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F76543D6A; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:04:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pjd@garage.freebsd.pl) Received: by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 149AC5138F; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:04:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (pjd.wheel.pl [10.0.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.garage.freebsd.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC095133B; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:04:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:03:18 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek To: Brian Candler Message-ID: <20060809130318.GG1182@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <20060808195202.GA1564@garage.freebsd.pl> <20060809125909.GB67566@uk.tiscali.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6lCXDTVICvIQMz0h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060809125909.GB67566@uk.tiscali.com> X-PGP-Key-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/pjd.asc X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.garage.freebsd.pl X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GJournal (hopefully) final patches. 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: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 13:04:15 -0000 --6lCXDTVICvIQMz0h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:59:09PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:52:02PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > Another change is that now from a configuration point of view gjournal > > is threated simlar to soft-updates - you need to specify -J flag at > > newfs(8) time or use 'tunefs -J enable '. 'gjournal' is no longer > > a mount option. >=20 > Does this restrict gjournal to UFS only? >=20 > I've not been following this closely, but I saw the original announcement: >=20 > "GJournal was designed to journal GEOM providers, so it actually works > below file system layer, but it has hooks which allow to work with > file systems. In other words, gjournal is not file system-depended, > it can work probably with any file system with minimum knowledge > about it. I implemented only UFS support." >=20 > I just wondered if gjournal support is likely to be limited to UFS now. You can use gjournal without file system, but most users are interested in journaling the UFS file system. This is the only file system supported currently by gjournal. If you want to use it with another file system, support for it has to be added to gjournal. --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --6lCXDTVICvIQMz0h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE2d0WForvXbEpPzQRAhAzAJ0WRRNtlgJhz0Be6zKlDPRLi0J3mACgzJGL 1aBH06fo8TamKSplTZLtznE= =P8qf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6lCXDTVICvIQMz0h--