[gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up? The drives are new, but contain random data left

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
Most of the wait I would assume is due to the size of the volume and creating parity. If it was my array I'd probably just sit tight and wait it out. On 2/1/10, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 *

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/ mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:09:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: We don't have average idiots in /our/ civil service! What? You actively seek out the *special* idiots then? Not personally, although I do seem to attract them :( -- Neil Bothwick Idaho - It's not the end of the world, but you

[gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, Yesterday I faced a problem when trying to switch to baselayout2/openrc on a machine with lvm and raid. The scenario: Server has software raid with mdadm and lvm2 and is currently mostly stable amd64. Root partition is on md1 and most other partitions (also /usr, that might matter) on

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 15:47:07 Hanno Böck wrote: Hi, Yesterday I faced a problem when trying to switch to baselayout2/openrc on a machine with lvm and raid. The scenario: Server has software raid with mdadm and lvm2 and is currently mostly stable amd64. Root partition is on md1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread Kyle Bader
It would be interesting to know whether hardware RAID would behave any differently or allow the sync to perform in the background. I have only 1.5TB in RAID5 across 4 x 500gb drives at present; IIRC the expansion from 3 x drives took some hours, but I can't recall the initial setup. LSI,

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Dale
Hanno Böck wrote: Am Montag 01 Februar 2010 schrieb Alan McKinnon: You have supplied a fair number of errors that are not related to the problem. Please post the errors that ARE related. Such as any lvm2, dm and mounting- root-filesystem errors Attached is the full log, but all

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth is impossible

2010-02-01 Thread Damian
All that is required is emerge bluez, reload dbus, start bluetooth, emerge blueman-1.21, config asound.conf as above, and restart alsasound. Has anyone gotten bluetooth pairing without a GUI tool such as blueman?  That's the impossible part. Thanks Grant for sharing your experience (I'll try

[gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Dale
/layman/kde-sunset/' * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/elog/kde-base:libkdegames-3.5.10:20100201-172324.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/libkdegames-3.5.10/temp/environment'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/libkdegames-3.5.10/work

[gentoo-user] configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-01 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based on NX. FreeNX, which I used before, was

Re: [gentoo-user] Transition to baselayout2 / openrc failed due to udev issues

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 17:25:22 Hanno Böck wrote: INIT: version 2.87 booting /bin/sh: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (de_DE.utf-8) OpenRC rsec: mount of proc to /proc by

[gentoo-user] Re: configuring x2go on gentoo

2010-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/01/2010 08:06 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 01/22/2010 12:10 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, I would like to try a remote desktop server/client app (linux to linux). Would anyone have suggestions? freenx x ltsp x vnc x others? I use x2go, which is based

[gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-01 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, Recently I bumped up (really) the number of HDD on a relatively old system (PATA IDE's) and I noticed that it took a while for gentoo to boot. After several weeks running, I tried to reboot and here is where I have a problem: *Populating /dev/ with existing devices through uevents...

Re: [gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 01 February 2010 19:47:27 Dale wrote: Well I synced and did a emerge -uvDN world. It said to run emerge @preserved-rebuild and I did. This is package number one and the error doesn't make much since to me. [snip] kgame/.libs/libkgame.a(kgamenetwork.o): In function

Re: [gentoo-user] libkdegames-3.5 won't compile

2010-02-01 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/1/10, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -DNDEBUG -DNO_DEBUG -O2 -march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] waiting for uevents...

2010-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
100201 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Recently I bumped up the number of HDD on a relatively old system and I noticed that it took a while for Gentoo to boot. I tried to reboot and here is where I have a problem: *Populating /dev/ with existing devices through uevents... *Waiting for uevents to

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-02-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 17:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't really care about any killswitch operation, but I'm interested in why I'm getting a . message. NetworkManager bug or misconfiguration error? Run syslog-ng with the -d

[gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-01 Thread David Relson
G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting. This evening I ran /etc/init.d/udev status which reported: * status: stopped. Running /etc/init.d/udev start reported:

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 06:03:10 David Relson wrote: G'day, I've been running baselayout-2 for several months and it's been working fine AFAICT. Over the weekend I noticed that my USB thumb drive is no longer automounting. This evening I ran /etc/init.d/udev status which reported: