gjournal question

[Jeff Richards]

I have started experimenting with gjournal filesystems this weekend.  I found something that may be a mistake I made.  Not sure.

To break up my IDE drive into the filesystems I wanted I created multiple slices.  On slice 2  I had multiple gjournal filesystems.  I tried creating a journal on slice 3 (ad0s3d I think), but it failed.  It actually created a journal entry in /dev, but I had trouble using it.  I then tried to remove the journal.  Then a journal entry in /dev appeared for the slice itself (/dev/ad0s3.journal).  If I removed the journal on the slice the partition journal reappeared.

I was able to get my filesystems the way I wanted by not using slice 3 and putting the remaining fileystem in slice 2.

Are there any internal requirement that a slice must be fully utilized with partitions before a new slice may be used?  I think I was able to create a standard UFS2 filesystem on slice 3 and just had trouble with the journal.

This was not a major problem for me,  just curious.

Thanks.