gjournal on powerpc ?

[Niels S. Eliasen]

Hi Peter
Now... after quite a bit of work... I have a gjournal'ed file- 
system.... while we are still waiting for ZFS/HammerFS ....
(testing the gjournaled file-system doing the good-ole CTRL-ALT- 
POWER... really shines! how performance is otherwise.... i still need  
to figure out)

just for the benefit of others going along:

It is MUCH easier if you have several partitions, where you have a  
working FreeBSD system, and then setup the other partitions with  
gjournal.....
and do follow the "man gjournal" guidelines.... even the references on  
the FreeBSD docs page are out-of-date....

And in the process... I noticed that the 7.1-BETA 2 I had installed  
from 3-4 weeks ago... was outdated! ;-)

a few observations:

1. how do you set the hardware clock on PowerPC ?? (dead-annoying that  
before getting ntpdate/ntpd running... all dates on the filesystems  
defaults to something in 1904 !!!)
2. speaking of ntpdate/ntpd.... "named" would like to start before  
having set the date properly, which forces "named" to flunk out  
because of the date.... how to circumvent this ?
3. 7.1-BETA2 complains on the logfiles in "/var/log" and they do not  
created correctly... and have to be "touch"'ed accordingly...
4. I have a problem with the "locate" command... it appears that the  
updatedb produces gibberish... and have tried to re-create the locate  
db database... but still no luck....
5. How do make a recovery CD for PowerPC ??? (it would have made my  
life a lot easier, having dump/restore easily available.... and  
principally the rest of  the FreeBSD available)
6. Is there a "gpart" howto somewhere ? I understand the reason for  
having gpart, but pdisk is easier to use.... ;-)

There are probably quite a number of PR's that needs/could be created  
by this... but I honestly do not know how do this....


Den 16/12/2008 kl. 22.45 skrev Peter Grehan:

>> anyone knows if there are any "specialties" with regard to
>> gjournal and FreeBSD on PowerPC??
>> or anyone who has this runnning at all ??
>
> Niels, you're always at the bleeding edge :) I've not run
> gjournal, but I would hazard it should work fine.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.

kind regards

nse

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