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.Dd November 14, 2007
.Dt GJOURNAL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm gjournal
.Nd "control utility for journaled devices"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Cm label
.Op Fl fhv
.Op Fl s Ar jsize
.Ar dataprov
.Op Ar jprov
.Nm
.Cm stop
.Op Fl fv
.Ar name ...
.Nm
.Cm sync
.Op Fl v
.Nm
.Cm clear
.Op Fl v
.Ar prov ...
.Nm
.Cm dump
.Ar prov ...
.Nm
.Cm list
.Nm
.Cm status
.Nm
.Cm load
.Nm
.Cm unload
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility is used for journal configuration on the given GEOM provider.
The Journal and data may be stored on the same provider or on two separate
providers.
This is block level journaling, not file system level journaling, which means
everything gets logged, e.g.\& for file systems, it journals both data and
metadata.
The
.Nm
GEOM class can talk to file systems, which allows the use of
.Nm
for file system journaling and to keep file systems in a consistent state.
At this time, only UFS file system is supported.
.Pp
To configure journaling on the UFS file system using
.Nm ,
one should first create a
.Nm
provider using the
.Nm
utility, then run
.Xr newfs 8
or
.Xr tunefs 8
on it with the
.Fl J
flag which instructs UFS to cooperate with the
.Nm
provider below.
There are important differences in how journaled UFS works.
The most important one is that
.Xr sync 2
and
.Xr fsync 2
system calls do not work as expected anymore.
To ensure that data is stored on the data provider, the
.Nm Cm sync
command should be used after calling
.Xr sync 2 .
For the best performance possible, soft-updates should be disabled when
.Nm
is used.
It is also safe and recommended to use the
.Cm async
.Xr mount 8
option.
.Pp
When
.Nm
is configured on top of
.Xr gmirror 8
or
.Xr graid3 8
providers, it also keeps them in a consistent state, thus
automatic synchronization on power failure or system crash may be disabled
on those providers.
.Pp
The
.Nm
utility uses on-disk metadata, stored in the provider's last sector,
to store all needed information.
This could be a problem when an existing file system is converted to use
.Nm .
.Pp
The first argument to
.Nm
indicates an action to be performed:
.Bl -tag -width ".Cm status"
.It Cm label
Configures
.Nm
on the given provider(s).
If only one provider is given, both data and journal are stored on the same
provider.
If two providers are given, the first one will be used as data provider and the
second will be used as the journal provider.
.Pp
Additional options include:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl s Ar jsize"
.It Fl f
May be used to convert an existing file system to use
.Nm ,
but only if the journal will be configured on a separate provider and if the
last sector in the data provider is not used by the existing file system.
If
.Nm
detects that the last sector is used, it will refuse to overwrite it
and return an error.
This behavior may be forced by using the
.Fl f
flag, which will force
.Nm
to overwrite the last sector.
.It Fl h
Hardcode provider names in metadata.
.It Fl s Ar jsize
Specifies size of the journal if only one provider is used for both data and
journal.
The default is one gigabyte.
Size should be chosen based on provider's load, and not on its size.
It is not recommended to use
.Nm
for small file systems (e.g.: only few gigabytes big).
.El
.It Cm clear
Clear metadata on the given providers.
.It Cm stop
Stop the given provider.
.Pp
Additional options include:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl f"
.It Fl f
Stop the given provider even if it is opened.
.El
.It Cm sync
Trigger journal switch and enforce sending data to the data provider.
.It Cm dump
Dump metadata stored on the given providers.
.It Cm list
See
.Xr geom 8 .
.It Cm status
See
.Xr geom 8 .
.It Cm load
See
.Xr geom 8 .
.It Cm unload
See
.Xr geom 8 .
.El
.Pp
Additional options include:
.Bl -tag -width ".Fl v"
.It Fl v
Be more verbose.
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.
.Sh EXAMPLES
Create a
.Nm
based UFS file system and mount it:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
gjournal load
gjournal label da0
newfs -J /dev/da0.journal
mount -o async /dev/da0.journal /mnt
.Ed
.Pp
Configure journaling on an existing file system, but only if
.Nm
allows this (i.e., if the last sector is not already used by the file system):
.Bd -literal -offset indent
umount /dev/da0s1d
gjournal label da0s1d da0s1e && \e
    tunefs -J enable -n disable && \e
    mount -o async /dev/da0s1d.journal /mnt || \e
    mount /dev/da0s1d /mnt
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr geom 4 ,
.Xr geom 8 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr tunefs 8 ,
.Xr umount 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility appeared in
.Fx 7.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pjd@FreeBSD.org
.Sh BUGS
Documentation for sysctls
.Va kern.geom.journal.*
is missing.