On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Jeff Roberson 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. >
This would preclude enabling journaling on / on an existing system, but I would think that you could enable it on / on a system that is being installed, since (at least in theory) the target / filesystem won't be the actual root of the system, and therefore can be unmounted at will. Scott _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
