[Linux-cluster] Remove journal from GFS

[Claudio Tassini]

I know that, but I can't grow the FS because I don't have hardware space to
do this, so I'm trying to find an alternate way...

2007/8/22, Jeremy Carroll <Jeremyc at tasconline.com>:
>
>  Adding an additional journal takes up minimum of 32M of space per
> journal. It looks like you have no free space on the GFS to add the journal.
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> You will have to grow your GFS volume by at least 32M to add the
> additional Journal. Then run this command.
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> Gfs_jadd –T –v –J 32 /gfsfilesystem
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> *From:* linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:
> linux-cluster-bounces at redhat <linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com>.com<linux-cluster-bounces at redhat.com>]
> *On Behalf Of *Claudio Tassini
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 22, 2007 11:03 AM
> *To:* linux clustering
> *Subject:* [Linux-cluster] Remove journal from GFS
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> Hi all,
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> i have a cluster in which two nodes share a GFS filesystem . I created the
> filesystem with 3 journals - just to be sure - , and now I need to add TWO
> cluster nodes and make the GFS fs visible to all the 4 nodes. When I try to
> add a journal to the fs (to have 4 of them), I got this:
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> gfs_jadd  -j 1 -T -v /gfsfilesystem
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> Requested size (65536 blocks) greater than available space (2 blocks)
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> So i read that it's normal, but I really need to add a journal to this fs.
> I was thinking about deleting one the current journals (I have 3 and I'm
> using 2), and then create two "half-sized" new journals, to reach the number
> of 4.
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> There is some other way I can achieve my goal? I don't think I can shrink
> GFS, and I simply can't backup all data, create a new FS and then restore
> (it's a 1 TB fs with production maildirs inside - you know... a VERY lot of
> small, really small files, it would mean a 2-days downtime).
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> Any help would be really appreciated.
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>
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> Claudio Tassini
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