Unga wrote:
--- Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for
implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC:


http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html
It focuses on detailing an easy to follow,
repeatable procedure, to install FreeBSD on a typical PC and enable journaling on /usr and possibly /var.
I am using this same procedure on my systems.

I welcome all feedback, please send me any comments,
suggestions and corrections.


Hope following ideas may help you.

1. Article is too long. You have a note before the
introduction, then "introduction" and "Understanding
journaling in FreeBSD". I appreciate brevity. The
"introduction" and "Understanding journaling in
FreeBSD" would be suffice. and edit them for brevity.

The note before the introduction is the abstract, and seems to be a standard feature in articles. You are right though, some parts should be shortened, information is repeated.
The note before the introduction is good enough as an
introduction,

2. Ideally have a table of contents.
Table of contents will be produced by the build system when the article is split into several pages (FORMATS=html-split), for my test I compiled it with FORMATS=html
3. Ideally prerequisites as a separate section.

4. A new section on "How to estimate journal size"
I would really like to have a method on estimating size, however I don't have enough test cases. This will have to wait for the next revision.
5. Split "Setting up journaling" to sub sections:
        - Data and journal in the same partition
        - Data and journal in the multiple partitions/disks

Already working on this ;)
6. A new section on how to extend the size of the
journal (if later find too small)

Would this be possible at all? It would mean you have more available free disk space. In that case you would simply remove the old journal and use the new one. I will mention this
7. Further reading:
        - Journaling UFS with gjournal -
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2006-June/064043.html

        - Journaling file system -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

        - UFS2 Journaling implementation detail -
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-April/173501.html

- FreeBSD/ZFS - Last word in operating/file systems -
http://2007.eurobsdcon.org/presentations/Pawel_Jakub_Dawidek/eurobsdcon07_zfs.pdf

Kind Regards
Unga
Thanks. I will add your links to a "Further reading" section.

P.S. Just realized I've sent this answer to your email only and not on the list. Apologies. Also note my comment on table of contents is probably incorrect. But I will probably add reference links between sections.
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