[gentoo-user] Raid web page

Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. --"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:36 PM antlists wrote: > > I now want to run lvm snapshot on the first boot of the weekend. Writing > a unit to do the snapshot seems pretty easy, but obviously I don't want > it firing every boot, if I stick the date in the volume name I don't > want it colliding with an

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 5:24 PM antlists wrote: [...] > Ouch. Dunno if that would work. Bear in mind I'm running this BEFORE > fstab, so / is read-only ... > You can store the timestamp in /run and then have another unit that updates the timestamp in /var after remounting root (/) read/write.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

Am Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:04:41PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > Curious question here.  As you may recall, I backup to a external hard > drive.  Would it make sense to use that software for a external hard > drive? Since you are using LVM for everything IIRC, it would be a very efficient way for you to

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On 01/10/2021 22:54, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM antlists > wrote: I think it would be much simpler to have a Type=oneshot service at boot, and the Exec= line to call a script. You can store the timestamp of the last time it

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid web page

On 01/10/2021 22:21, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: Where is Wol's raid page?  I'm about to build a raid box fro NAS. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 3:37 PM antlists wrote: > I'm trying to get a systemd unit to fire on boot once a week. Reading up > on timer units, I can't work out how to get it to work. > > This is tied up with my earlier systemd mount post - I've now got that > sorted - I've got dm-integrity to fire

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config FIXED

On 29/09/2021 22:15, antlists wrote: On 29/09/2021 12:06, Nils Freydank wrote: Hi Wol, my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional colons after the password: ':' I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too. For the dovecot setup I can

[gentoo-user] systemd boot timer

I'm trying to get a systemd unit to fire on boot once a week. Reading up on timer units, I can't work out how to get it to work. This is tied up with my earlier systemd mount post - I've now got that sorted - I've got dm-integrity to fire before fstab. I now want to run lvm snapshot on the

[gentoo-user] Re: setcap fails: (Operation not supported)

On 2021-10-01, Laurence Perkins wrote: > Doesn't it require xattrs? Yes, I had xattrs enabled. That used to be enough to get setcap to work. It now also requires CONFIG_*_FS_SECURITY, which I didn't have enabled. -- Grant

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: setcap fails: (Operation not supported)

Doesn't it require xattrs? I vaguely remember running into that at one point years ago. Not sure if the other flags you're using will force xattr support on or not, but it's worth checking. LMP -Original Message- From: Grant Edwards Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:00 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 01/10/2021 17:08, Mark Knecht wrote: This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 4:00 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 3:35 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:50 PM Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I've been looking at a few software solutions based on another thread here but so far nothing has excited me so recommendations for what makes sense for high reliability home backup

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right instruction set for > running Tensorflow anymore - so I want