On Oct 2, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Michael van Elst wrote:

> thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) writes:
>
>> 1- Journal reply (for "turn journal off").
>
>> 2- A way to allocate space for the journal in the file system
>> (presumably contiguous space, this this avoids having to do bmap to
>> write to the journal) (for "turn journal on").
>
> There should be a way to stripe the journal over several disks.

...and that should be done for a multi-disk-aware file system, but not  
for UFS.

-- thorpej