[Linux-cluster] Jornals on GFS

[Bob Peterson]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 10:11 -0400, Sutton, Harry (MSE) wrote:
> Tiago Cruz wrote:
> > Is there some problem if I format my GFS with, for example, 10
> > jornals if I'm using only 3? 'Cause we never know about the
> > future... :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> of initially-unused journals (other than the relatively small space they 
> take up.)

Hi,

That "relatively small space they take up" is 128MB for each journal by
default.  So if you format for 30 journals, that's 3.75GB, if that's
acceptable to you.

Regards,

Bob Peterson
Red Hat Clustering & GFS