Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:49:26 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK0x5sqtQB5Hd342VUYYQdkbwp_ANz7JqQcpwimxZCe-7A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110818174341.65a0859b@cox.net> References: <20110818174341.65a0859b@cox.net>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> wrote: > Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem > without destroying it? > You can't really(it can be done but requires exception circumstance). If you didn't take these steps during initial install you're best off starting from scratch. These is a guide on how to use sysinstall to create a system gjournaled from the start: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/gjournal-desktop/ > > I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over > softupdates? > There are some positives and negatives to it. It's importance is decreasing in FreeBSD 9 as SU+J will be possible. -- Adam Vande More
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