Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 Aug 2013 21:21:10 Alan McKinnon wrote: Ahem, Mr Bothwick! Our friend with the thing about free lunches needs you to demonstrate your penmanship, considering you have some proven results in this area. ...and I'd happily act as editor... :-) ;-) -- Regards, Peter

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 4:16 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 30 Aug 2013 15:44:35 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-30 10:34 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/08/2013 16:29,

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Well, if you follow Tanstaafl in the other thread, you'll see that he wants ZFS to be integrated into the kernel, not existing as a kernel module. But why does someone want things to be inside a static kernel? Since 1991/1992, Solaris does not have

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-31 1:10 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a problem that's already solved by installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running module-rebuild rebuild after every kernel update, which is how nvidia, broadcom, and other kernel modules

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-31 7:04 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Everything is dynamic, you would however put a lot of effort into the linux kernel to get to that state...e.g. automated major device numbering. ??? I've been running my servers without modules since... I started

[gentoo-user] Re: where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-31 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:37:19AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Just fyi... the *only* problem that I have with this is that I have an *existing* system that has a separate /usr, and it only has that separate /usr because when I followed the original gentoo installation handbook back in 2003 or

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-31 1:10 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a problem that's already solved by installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running module-rebuild rebuild after every kernel update, which

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-31 7:04 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Everything is dynamic, you would however put a lot of effort into the linux kernel to get to that state...e.g. automated major device

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, Mr Schilling wrote: On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported by Linux? CONFIG_MODULE_SIG -- Regards, Gregory.

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, Mr Schilling wrote: On Solaris, you can disable loading unsigned modules, is this not supported by Linux? CONFIG_MODULE_SIG So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside. Jörg --

Re: [gentoo-user] where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-31 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 30 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 30/08/2013 17:18, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Aug 30 2013, J. Roeleveld wrote: gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I want to reinstall an old system to have combined root+usr. I have always used an lvm installation guide that was a companion to the

[gentoo-user] dvdstyler fails to build, complains about wxSVG with no libav

2013-08-31 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, It's been for a while: while trying to re-emerge a ~amd64 rmedia-video/dvdstyler-2.5.1 in a default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde profile machine, during the configuration pass, it stops, complaining about wxSVG not being built with LIBAV support: ... checking for wx-config...

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-31 1:10 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like an awful lot of trouble for a problem that's already solved by installing sys-kernel/module-rebuild and running module-rebuild rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: crond: time disparity detected (on hibernate and wake-up)

2013-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 09:43:06PM -0500, »Q« wrote On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:46:37 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Whenever I hibernate or do a wake-up from hibernation, I always get messages about a crond time disparity detected. It's usually 580 or 602 minutes. But the

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside. See http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap7 Now go to File Systems and select support for the

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside. See

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside. See

[gentoo-user] virtualbox - failed to access the USB subsystem

2013-08-31 Thread Joseph
After recent upgrade I'm getting an error when trying to start the virtualbox. Failed to access the USB subsystem. Could not load the Host USB Proxy service: VERR_NOT_FOUND. Details: Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x4005) Component: Host Interface: IHost

[gentoo-user] Re: dvdstyler fails to build, complains about wxSVG with no libav [SOLVED]

2013-08-31 Thread Francisco Ares
2013/8/31 Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com Hi, It's been for a while: while trying to re-emerge a ~amd64 rmedia-video/dvdstyler-2.5.1 in a default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde profile machine, during the configuration pass, it stops, complaining about wxSVG not being built with LIBAV

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox - failed to access the USB subsystem

2013-08-31 Thread Joseph
On 08/31/13 19:10, Joseph wrote: After recent upgrade I'm getting an error when trying to start the virtualbox. Failed to access the USB subsystem. Could not load the Host USB Proxy service: VERR_NOT_FOUND. Details: Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x4005) Component: Host Interface: IHost

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sep 1, 2013 7:51 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 02:19:56PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote So there seems to be no real need to create a static linux kernel with ZFS inside.

Re: [gentoo-user] crond: time disparity detected (on hibernate and wake-up)

2013-08-31 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Aug 31, 2013 8:47 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Whenever I hibernate or do a wake-up from hibernation, I always get messages about a crond time disparity detected. It's usually 580 or 602 minutes. But the clock appears to be correct within a few seconds after wake-up.

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Walter Dnes
I usally use ext4 as filesystem. # lsmod|grep ext ext3 100768 0 jbd39586 1 ext3 ext2 49572 0 ext4 263621 1 crc16 1255 2 ext4,bluetooth mbcache 4450 3 ext2,ext3,ext4 jbd2

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I usally use ext4 as filesystem. # lsmod|grep ext ext3 100768 0 jbd39586 1 ext3 ext2 49572 0 ext4 263621 1 crc16 1255 2

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-31 Thread Mark David Dumlao
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I usally use ext4 as filesystem. # lsmod|grep ext ext3 100768 0 jbd39586 1 ext3 ext2 49572 0 ext4 263621 1 crc16 1255 2

[gentoo-user] DBus and network namespaces

2013-08-31 Thread Pavel Volkov
I launch some apps from inside a network namespace in order to force them to communicate through my VPN interface only. But they fail to use DBus then. Some examples of what goes wrong: 1. Chromium cannot launch system proxy settings dialog. 2. Most apps from KDE SC crash right away. 3. No app