On 27/05/2020 01:44, William Kenworthy wrote:
I have a few different pi's and similar Odroid arm systems running
Gentoo on sdcards - the failure rate is a real and constant problem (and
seems worse on pi's no matter what brand/type of sdcard so keep an up to
date spare+backups) and I am thinking
On Wed, 27 May 2020 10:24:21 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I'm moving over to using Balena on Pis wherever possible. N more
> > keeping track of multiple different SD card backup images and easy
> > centralised management.
>
> Do you have a simple howto for this?
> What I see when I quickly
On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 9:39:06 AM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:44:08 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I have a few different pi's and similar Odroid arm systems running
> > Gentoo on sdcards - the failure rate is a real and constant problem (and
> > seems worse on pi's
On Wed, 27 May 2020 08:44:08 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> I have a few different pi's and similar Odroid arm systems running
> Gentoo on sdcards - the failure rate is a real and constant problem (and
> seems worse on pi's no matter what brand/type of sdcard so keep an up to
> date
On 27/5/20 3:26 am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 20:13:29 +0100, antlists wrote:
>
>>> Mounting the card with sync will significantly reduce the likelihood
>>> of corruption, at a cost of reduced life.
>>>
>> Well, compared to a dead card, a reduced life is a small price to pay
On Tue, 26 May 2020 20:13:29 +0100, antlists wrote:
> > Mounting the card with sync will significantly reduce the likelihood
> > of corruption, at a cost of reduced life.
> >
> Well, compared to a dead card, a reduced life is a small price to pay
> :-)
A dead card is a reduced life ;-)
> I
On 26/05/2020 19:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020 19:14:18 +0100, antlists wrote:
That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way
to make it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled.
Don't use an SD card? Seriously, pulling the power on an SD card has
been
On 26/05/2020 19:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
This will mitigate the reduced life as you are hardly writing to the
card. Booting from a read-only / has caused problems for me in the past,
because of the inability to write to /etc.
Well, if we can get a loopback into the boot sequence before you
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 1:27 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 19:14:18 +0100, antlists wrote:
>
> > > That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way
> > > to make it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled.
> >
> > Don't use an SD card? Seriously, pulling the
On Tue, 26 May 2020 19:14:18 +0100, antlists wrote:
> > That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way
> > to make it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled.
>
> Don't use an SD card? Seriously, pulling the power on an SD card has
> been known to corrupt it beyond
On 26/05/2020 18:28, Frank Tarczynski wrote:
That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way to
make it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled.
Don't use an SD card? Seriously, pulling the power on an SD card has
been known to corrupt it beyond recovery. BUT.
Is the big
That's the Gentoo version that I'm using. But I'm looking for a way to make
it bullet-proof to having the plug pulled.
Frank
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 1:19 PM Michael Jones wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:16 PM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>
>> On 2020-05-26, Frank Tarczynski wrote:
>>
>> >
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:16 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
> On 2020-05-26, Frank Tarczynski wrote:
>
> > I'm building a video conference appliance using a Raspberry Pi 4 for
> > my parents.
>
> Sorry, no advice running Gentoo on RPi. I run OSMC/Kodi on an older
> RPi, and it works fine, but I
On 2020-05-26, Frank Tarczynski wrote:
> I'm building a video conference appliance using a Raspberry Pi 4 for
> my parents.
Sorry, no advice running Gentoo on RPi. I run OSMC/Kodi on an older
RPi, and it works fine, but I don't think there are any video
conference apps for Kodi.
But...
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