From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 00:51:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53DD16A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:51:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826A443D53 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:51:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8U0plWL036183; Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:51:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <433C8C1C.5070705@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:51:40 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050914 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <433C444A.7020902@unixforge.net> <433C4641.1000405@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <433C4641.1000405@samsco.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/1105/Thu Sep 29 16:31:04 2005 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jUFS / UFSj Status Tracking X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:51:58 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Eli K. Breen wrote: > >> Hello list (and specifically Scott Long), >> >> I'm looking for a way to track the status of the jUFS/UFSj (journaled >> UFS) project. Searching the web at large, the mailing lists, and the >> FreeBSD site returns a fairly random smattering of statuses/statusii >> for this/these projects (seemingly run by ScottLong/MattDillion/and >> others). I've had a look at the oft-mentioned >> http://repoman.freebsd.org/depotTreeBrowser.cgi?FSPC=//depot/user/scottl/ufsj >> >> site, which although it offers up the code, doesn't really help in >> terms of overall status etc. >> >> As a sidenote, we're hoping to leverage this to allow for >> multi-machine access to a consistent file store, in this case it would >> [hopefully] be accomplished by having a centralized journal, with all >> machines applying the journal to their local filesystems. Call me >> madcap if you will... > > > You want gjournal for this, not ufsj. Here is the project page: > > http://wikitest.freebsd.org/moin.cgi/gjournal > > Confusing names, I know, but I didn't pick the name for gjournal =-) How does gjournal help with this? Seems like the OP wanted a setup more like what Dragonfly is trying to offer - many hosts with up-to-date filesystem copies. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------