On Thursday 2009 January 08 12:48:29 Anton Aylward wrote:
Has anyone ever added an external journal to a mature FS? Reiser or ext3?
Nope.
I'm wondering of adding a new logical volume on my LVM for each of my journalled file systems would be of use?
Not really. It's generally only done if you can make the journal device significantly faster than the data device. Even then, it's of questionable utility with write barriers in effect.
How large should something like that be?
For reiserfs: 33M, IIRC.
Does anyone have experience with adding a journal 'after the fact'?
No.
Or with the journal being on a LVM
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