dedicated partition for Journal - Graylog Server will not start #2348
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you need to create a sub-dir /opt/graylog/journal_test/journal and it will work |
Just FYI, that's the wrong order. First mount the file system, then run I could reproduce the issue with ext4 in the official virtual machine image (https://packages.graylog2.org/releases/graylog-omnibus/ova/graylog-2.0.2-1.ova), but I think it's related to the filesystem itself. Using XFS as the filesystem for the new journal partition, everything works fine (even without an additional directory below the partition root). |
if you use btrfs this is working also fine - like the lost+found confuse here |
Also using btrfs with compression on loop dev - works great (comression ratio 1:5) |
Kafka is really picky with what's in the directory, this is not something we can fix ourselves (regarding the |
@kroepke i will highlight this in the documentation. but my advice would be - if possible to check internal if the Journal is broken and display a more useful message! |
additional to the needed update in the documentation i had created a note in the graylog.conf about extra partitions for the journal ref: #2348
added information about dedicated partition for journal, that it can be found inside the docs re: Graylog2/graylog2-server#2348
you can resolve this problem |
Problem description
If you add a new partition to your system to hold the graylog journal or you have a dedicated partition in your design graylog will not start and throw the following error every second:
Steps to reproduce the problem
taking OVA 2.0.2 add additional disk to the VM, create partition, format, mount, copy journal
Environment
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