Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:13:07 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling UFS with gjournal. Message-ID: <20060623171307.87888.qmail@web30305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200606231652.k5NGqoQ0023670@lurza.secnetix.de>
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--- Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > R. B. Riddick <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Depends: > > If your existing file system needs its last sector, > > then it wont work. If it does not need it, then it > > might work (although fsck does not check for a > > raw-device shrinkage - I think)... > > It has no way to check it. > Hmm... Maybe it is not so interesting, but I wish fsck could say, if the partition in question is as big as it was when newfs built the file system... > file, and fsck(8) has no way to notice that, of course. > fsck could not even read the last sector of the former file system, because gjournal took it away... Or doesn't it? > If that sector happens to contain UFS meta data, fsck(8) > might detect the corruption and try to correct it, which > will destroy the gjournal meta data. > I think write access to that sector is not possible. Furthermore the device that is handed to fsck does not contain that meta data sector... At least I hope, that it is like that with my geom_mirror and geom_stripe discs... ;-) -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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