Daily Archive for February 29th, 2008

FreeBSD: Set the order of SCSI Cards

Published on February 29, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , .

In /boot/device.hints:

hint.scbus.0.at="ahd0"

FreeBSD gjournal and UFS snapshot

Published on February 29, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Recently I am testing a new feature in FreeBSD 7.0: gjournal. However, taking a snapshot on a journalized ufs causes kernel panic. (Size of the RAID is 5TB)

panic

And I cannot write into the filesystem when I am taking a snapshot, and ever can not read data from it. We should use ZFS or NetApp when we need filesystem snapshot in FreeBSD…