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From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?
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Le Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:43:41 -0500,
"Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> a écrit :

Hello,

> I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over
> softupdates?

If the file system is large, it avoids a "very long" fsck.
I use gjournal since 7.2 and never had any problem (and I always
shutdown my small soekris box by removing the power plug...)

Regards.