On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:43:27AM +0900, srwadleigh wrote:
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> I am having a strange problem with gjournal on a thinkpad T41,
>=20
> I am running: 7.0-PRERELEASE - Wed Jan 2 06:05:20 JST 2008
> And have the problem with both a custom and generic kernel.
>=20
> If I load gjournal through loader.conf or compile GEOM_JOURNAL into
> the kernel, upon reboot all my slices change, and break booting.
>=20
> ad0s1a becomes ad0a
> ad0s1d becomes ad0d, and so on..
>=20
> If I manually run gjournal load after boot the slices are fine,
> everything works as expected.
>=20
> Here is my journal setup:
>=20
> /dev/ad0s1f.journal 64G /usr/home
>=20
> Geom name: gjournal 2080874044
> ID: 2080874044
> Providers:
> 1. Name: ad0s1f.journal
>    Mediasize: 70812433920 (66G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Mode: r1w1e1
> Consumers:
> 1. Name: ad0s1f
>    Mediasize: 71886176256 (67G)
>    Sectorsize: 512
>    Mode: r1w1e1
>    Jend: 71886175744
>    Jstart: 70812433920
>    Role: Data,Journal
>=20
>=20
> Doing some research on the list I found a similar problem in the past
> with gmirror, where the slice and device ending at the same place was
> being confused. The solution suggested there seemed to be to hardcode
> the provider names into the metadata.
>=20
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-May/014448.html
>=20
> My question is, is this possibly the same issue now with gjournal? and
> is it possible to hardcode provider names after a journal has been
> created?

Just unmount the file system, stop the journal and call 'gjournal label'
with exactly the sam parameters as originally plus '-h' option.

--=20
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