From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: journal log file
Date: 20 May 2002 10:07:12 -0400
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To: Dieter =?ISO-8859-1?Q?N=FCtzel?= <Dieter.Nuetzel@hamburg.de>
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On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 10:02, Dieter N=FCtzel 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 rea=
ch?
> > > 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).
>=20
> Oleg, you should have mentioned that Chris had a "variable" log size patc=
h for=20
> "ages" but he only haven't had enough time for polishing it.
>=20
> I for myself were very excited when we get this in some day 'cause than I=
 have=20
> some little more space on my "boot" partition left or I can shrink it=20
> finally.

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

-chris