Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:56:21 -1000 (HST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> To: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com> Cc: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: SUJ Going in to head today Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004261955260.1398@desktop> In-Reply-To: <20100425132413.44d66b10@ernst.jennejohn.org> References: <4BD35437.2060208@lissyara.su> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004241656270.1398@desktop> <20100425132413.44d66b10@ernst.jennejohn.org>
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On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:57:59 -1000 (HST) > Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net> 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. >> > > Jeff - > One thing which surprised me was that I couldn't reuse the existing > .sujournal files on my disks. I did notice that there are now more > flags set on them. Was that the reason? Or were you just being > careful? There were a few iterations of the code to create and discover the actual journal inode. I may have introduced an incompatibility when making fsck more careful about what it treats as a journal. If it were to attempt to apply changes from a garbage file it could corrupt your filesystem. Thanks, Jeff > > -- > Gary Jennejohn >
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