[geeks] Re: [SunHELP] Journaled Filesystems (thanks to sunhelp.org)

[Dale Ghent]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, ftg wrote:

| I have never really liked solaris before ....BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
|
| I turned on logging the other day and sure enough the local power company
| basically pulled the
| power at 12:00 when we are out for lunch.......(yes we have a ups but it
| only lasts 1 hour).
|
| Well when we got back we noticed that some daemons were not running, so we
| checked out
| syslog sure enough a reboot happened.
|
| 600GB raid array fscked itself and came up in 3 minutes or so.......no data
| loss......
|
| Thats a really neato feature.....how come SUN does not have logging turned
| on by default.
|
| IS THERE A DOWN SIDE TO LOGGING??

There is a recent patch for mount(1) for Solaris 8 and I believe 7 as well
that makes logging a default mount option for UFS file systems.

So, yeah, as of Solaris 8 2/02, logging is default. Add the patch and your
revision will turn it on by default.

/dale