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Authored by vladlen on Tue, Jan 27, 3:46 AM.
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This article discussed in the user list recently, it is used, but it has outdated information. I rewrite it keeping the text from previous version as much as possible.

  1. Soft update with journalling added as primary option.
  2. gjournal examples checked, changed to new driver names, considered discussions in forums.freensd.org
  3. sysinstall in text and corresponding pictures removed
  4. FAQ expanded

Now the article corresponds to the FreeBSD version 13-15.

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documentation/content/en/articles/gjournal-desktop/_index.adoc
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You can then initialize a UFS filesystem on the new partition and enable journaling uning newfs(8) on the .journal device. Afterward, disable Soft Updates on the filesystem using tunefs(8):

Thank you so much for doing this. Ufs is amazing and it doesn't get enough love

Thank you so much for doing this. Ufs is amazing and it doesn't get enough love

/home partition on my desktop has UFS, and it survived all my experiments with journalling on it, including gjournal clear for data provider without clear for journal provider (system hanged after reboot, restored from boot USB).

I got comment from @marck to change 'filesystem' to 'file system', I will change it in the next diff for this review. In the documentation 'file system' won 'filesystem' with score 614:320 times in the texts.

I suppose, review from native English speaker is needed, otherwise it looks almost perfect!

Some very small nitpicking changes will follow separately.

Fixed based on the remarks of @marck.
Added clarification of boot and fsck interaction with journals (check by source code).
Added Q&A from forums.freebsd.org.

looks great.

@ziaee what do you think?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sun, Feb 8, 3:56 PM