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From: Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>
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Cc: pjd@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems with journal?
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Volker wrote:
> On 12/23/-58 20:59, Giulio Ferro wrote:
>   
>> <div class="moz-text-flowed">I'm experiencing very serious delay issues
>> in 2 production servers.
>>
>> The server are dual intel quad core
>> o.s. : freebsd 7 stable (yesterday) amd64, mfi driver for 2 physical
>> controllers:
>> 1) two sas disks in mirror (mfi0)
>> 2) one dell md1000 disk enclosure with 15 sata disks in raid 60 (total
>> ~7 TB) (mfi1)
>>
>> I created a single partition for the second disk, I put the geom_journal
>> on it,
>> I formatted it with ufs and mounted it on /data directory.
>>
>> from /etc/fstab
>> /dev/mfid1.journal      /data           ufs     rw,async        2       0
>>
>>     
>
> Giulio,
>
> I'm wondering about the device name "mfid1.journal". Please show us your
> partitioning scheme and output of ``gjournal list''.
>
> Volker
>   

Sure.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > gjournal list
Geom name: gjournal 4016494930
ID: 4016494930
Providers:
1. Name: mfid1.journal
   Mediasize: 7494986366464 (6.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
Consumers:
1. Name: mfid1
   Mediasize: 7496060108800 (6.8T)
   Sectorsize: 512
   Mode: r1w1e1
   Jend: 7496060108288
   Jstart: 7494986366464
   Role: Data,Journal

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Hope it helps...