Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:47:00 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> Cc: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: SUJ Going in to head today Message-ID: <622DDEDF-0320-49DA-8037-CA8C1F682CC1@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004241656270.1398@desktop> References: r2x7d6fde3d1004210606o25fdf542j42cb5fdef75991e2@mail.gmail.com <4BD35437.2060208@lissyara.su> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004241656270.1398@desktop>
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On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Alex Keda wrote: > >> try in single user mode: >> >> tunefs -j enable / >> tunefs: Insuffient free space for the journal >> tunefs: soft updates journaling can not be enabled >> >> tunefs -j enable /dev/ad0s2a >> tunefs: Insuffient free space for the journal >> tunefs: soft updates journaling can not be enabled >> tunefs: /dev/ad0s2a: failed to write superblock > > There is a bug that prevents enabling journaling on a mounted filesystem. So for now you can't enable it on /. I see that you have a large / volume but in general I would also suggest people not enable suj on / anyway as it's typically not very large. I only run it on my /usr and /home filesystems. > > I will send a mail out when I figure out why tunefs can't enable suj on / while it is mounted read-only. > This would preclude enabling journaling on / on an existing system, but I would think that you could enable it on / on a system that is being installed, since (at least in theory) the target / filesystem won't be the actual root of the system, and therefore can be unmounted at will. Scott
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