NASLite Network Attached Storage

I have just realized that I have not set a journal for my storage drives. Can I set this option now and not lose anything on my drives? just want to be sure before I do. Thanks...love this program!!!

Yes you can and there is no problem. If you built it using NL 2.X than the FS is already journaled.

Mike

I used M2 V1.02 (latest). How can I tell if journal is on?

By default it is on, just read what it says about journaling in the telnet window if you try to apply a journal. M2 builds an EXT3 file system, hence journaled FS.

Mike

And if you check the "Server Storage Disk-x" page(s) under the entry "Filesystem features:" is would show "has_journal".

Interestingly ... the Journal appears to be NOT automatic -- at least on REGULAR NASLite ( I never used M2 ). On a test-environment-server with a beta copy of the soon to be released NASLite 2.6 I just did a re-format (of an existing NL2 ext3 (with journal) in-use data disk), set it to RW, reboot, then listed the "Filesystem features:" and "has_journal" was not set. Followed this by option 7 (Apply a Journal) ... and there it was ... now it's "has_journal". But then I also created a Mirror on this disk. Because the "Filesystem state:" said "not_clean" (unexpectedly -- I had expected the "Apply a Journal" to set the "clean" flag) I also rebooted and was surprised to see the system do a filecheck during restart. Now the system has "Filesystem features: has_journal", plus "Filesystem state: clean" and its Mirror (set to start in about 45 minutes).

Moral: If you prefer the journal (and I would recommend that -- the space & performance overhead is small for most environments) always check your "Filesystem Features" and do that additional reboot (with system-auto-initiated filecheck) before you add major amounts of data to the disk.