Re: journal log file

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:02, Dieter Nützel wrote:
> On Monday 20 May 2002 06:15, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> > > partitions (/, /var and /cache), and two of them were created with
> > > reiserfs (/var and /cache). The thing is my / partition hasn't a lot of
> > > room to keep the journal log file. What's the biggest size it can reach?
> > > Will I have one
> >
> > For a filesystem with 4k blocksize standard journal is always 32M (and
> > variable blocksize or relocated journal patches won't be produced for 2.2
> > kernels anyway).
> 
> Oleg, you should have mentioned that Chris had a "variable" log size patch for 
> "ages" but he only haven't had enough time for polishing it.
> 
> I for myself were very excited when we get this in some day 'cause than I have 
> some little more space on my "boot" partition left or I can shrink it 
> finally.

Note, namesys guys wrote this patch, it is in 2.5.x already.

-chris