Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:50:18 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: pjd@freebsd.org Cc: ata@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Issues with gjournal (heaaaaaaaaaaalp!) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0906101950r7640dbf5va8181fd80e2e07ba@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0906101944t7a04ff7ejdd415938d3e1483c@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d6fde3d0906101944t7a04ff7ejdd415938d3e1483c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Garrett Cooper<yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pawel, ATA, and Stable folks, > > =A0 =A0This time when I did a reinstall I took the bullet and tried to > use gjournaling instead of softupdates. The unfortunate thing is that > I can't seem to get it to work. > > Here's the procedure that I'm trying to follow (based off of [1]): > - sysinstall from scratch with a minimal distribution. This creates > /usr // /dev/ad6s1d as UFS2 with softupdates disabled. > - Pull latest stable sources. Rebuild kernel (with `options > GEOM_JOURNAL'), world, install kernel, then world after reboot. > - gjournal label -f ad6s1d ad6s2d > - mount /dev/ad6s1d /usr # That works (I think...), but prints out the > error message below: > > GEOM_JOURNAL: [flush] Error while writing data (error=3D1) > ad6s2d[WRITE(offset=3D512, length=3D6656)] > > gjournal status says: > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Name =A0 Status =A0 Components > ad6s1d.journal =A0 =A0 =A0 N/A =A0 ad6s1d > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 a= d6s2d > > Some issues I noticed: > > - GJOURNAL ROOT (something) loops infinitely if the device can't be > found; this should probably time out and panic / exit if a device > becomes unavailable (depends on fstab values in the final 2 fields no > doubt). I did this by accident when I forgot to add iir statically to > the kernel. > - The LiveCD doesn't fully support gjournal (userland's there, kernel > support isn't). Kind of annoying and counterproductive... > - Existing journal partitions disappeared when I upgraded by accident > from 7.2-RELEASE to 8-CURRENT (silly me copied my srcs.sup file from > my server with label=3D.). That was weird... > - When I use gjournal label with an existing filesystem I _must_ use -f. > > Any help with this endeavor would be more than appreciated, as I want > to enable this functionality before I move on to installing X11, as > nvidia-driver frequently hardlocks the desktop (or has in the past). > > Thanks, > -Garrett > > [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/gjournal-desktop/= article.html And to answer another potential question, I've tried mounting both with -o rw,async and with -o rw. Thanks! -Garrett
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