[gentoo-user] Gentoo installation on a ZFS Root

2013-09-18 Thread Edward Martinez
Hello, If anybody is interested this howto appears it explains how to Install Gentoo on ZFS Root. https://github.com/ryao/zfs-overlay/blob/master/zfs-install

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 06:11, schrieb Grant: I have to set up a server w/ 8x 1TB in about 2 weeks and consider ZFS as well, at least for data. So root-fs would go onto 2x 1TB hdds with conventional partitioning and something like ext4. Is a layout like this with the data on ZFS and the root-fs on

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:22:29 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just wondering if anyone experienced running ZFS on Gentoo finds this wiki article worthy of use: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS Yes, it is useful. However I have recently stopped using the option to built ZFS into the kernel as I ran into

Re: [gentoo-user] Cyrus IMAPd .. sieve extensions

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.09.2013 11:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Does anyone know how I get the date-extension into my gentoo-based cyrus-imapd-server? anyone ... ?

[gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am fiddling with accessing a server ... ssh -v from my desktop hangs at: # ssh -v $HOSTIP OpenSSH_6.2p2-hpn14v1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013 debug1: Reading configuration data /root/.ssh/config debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: Connecting to *edited* debug1: fd 3

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 11:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Rebuilt openssh already. Maybe I should downgrade for testing ... The problematic box: net-misc/openssh-6.2_p2-r4 The working box: net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4 Yep. Downgrading works for me.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about the ARC. Jörg --

[gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread 东方巽雷
ext4?btrfs or reiserfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 20:34:12 +0800, 东方巽雷 wrote: ext4?btrfs or reiserfs? tmpfs is you have the RAM. Otherwise ext2 would be a good bet, you don't need journalling or large file support for compilation. -- Neil Bothwick I'll never forget the 1st time I ran Windows, but I'm trying...

[gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread James
Bruce Hill daddy at happypenguincomputers.com writes: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:11:33PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: Is there a good place to read about these kinds of tuning parameters? Just wondering if anyone experienced running ZFS on Gentoo finds this wiki article worthy of use:

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/portage, and on my workstation for /usr/portage and /home/prh/.VirtualBox. It's never

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var, /var/cache/squid and /usr/portage, and on my workstation for

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 09:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: rootfs on ZFS or everything on ZFS would have advantages, sure. No partitioning at all, resizeable zfs-filesystems for everything, checksums for everything ... you name it. In my case I have to decide until Sep, 25th - installation day ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.09.2013 11:56, schrieb Joerg Schilling: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Joe Nyland
On 18 Sep 2013, at 10:55, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 18.09.2013 11:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Rebuilt openssh already. Maybe I should downgrade for testing ... The problematic box: net-misc/openssh-6.2_p2-r4 The working box: net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4 Yep.

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 19:47, schrieb Joe Nyland: Not sure why a downgraded openssh would improve things for you if this is the issue, however I faced the same issue as yourself and it was caused by mDNS trying to do a reverse lookup on the host connecting in to the affected server, ultimately causing

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 20:03, schrieb Shawn Wilson: Since the downgrade fixed your issue idk... but, what does your authorized_keys look like? Also, move or chmod 0 your config to make sure nothing funny is happening there. authorized_keys looks very OK ... only my 2 keys in there ... untouched for

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is more suitable for /var/tmp/portage?

2013-09-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 17:09:37 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/09/2013 16:05, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 Sep 2013 14:52:30 Ralf Ramsauer wrote: In my opinion, reiser is a bit outdated ... What is the significance of its date? I use reiserfs on my Atom box for /var,

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Shawn Wilson
Since the downgrade fixed your issue idk... but, what does your authorized_keys look like? Also, move or chmod 0 your config to make sure nothing funny is happening there. Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 18.09.2013 19:47, schrieb Joe Nyland: Not sure why a downgraded openssh

[gentoo-user] re ssh hangs

2013-09-18 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: ssh -v from my desktop hangs at: I'm not sure what you are doing but some (vendor's) implemetations of ssh, have a different set of priorities and order of negotiation, particularly if the product you are trying to ssh into was based on funky

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Shawn Wilson
I was saying to chmod 000 it so that you're not picking up (possibly strange?) options. Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 18.09.2013 20:03, schrieb Shawn Wilson: Since the downgrade fixed your issue idk... but, what does your authorized_keys look like? Also, move or chmod 0 your

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 18.09.2013 21:01, schrieb Shawn Wilson: I was saying to chmod 000 it so that you're not picking up (possibly strange?) options. and it is still readable then? never tried 000.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need help: Filesystem (ext4) corrupted!

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Wagener
You dont happen to have a reasonable identical SD Card around, so you could dd the image on to see whether this is card related, do you? On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 04:45:04 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I did a binary image backup with dd of the sdcard.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Dale
Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh hanging ... why?

2013-09-18 Thread shawn wilson
did chmod 0600 now. You just made it read+writable by just you - you're running ssh by you, right? I referred to the man page because I thought there would be something I could just quote and learned something Omitted digits are assumed to be leading zeros. which makes sense, as I intuitively

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Grant
Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel, although some argue that it should be integrated

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Grant
turn off readahead. ZFS' own readahead and the kernel's clash - badly. Turn off kernel's readahead for a visible performance boon. You are probably not talking about ZFS readahead but about the ARC. which does prefetching. So yes. I'm taking notes on this so I want to clarify, when using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-18 Thread Grant
I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton (wiki) information page as such: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS+RAID I know I

[gentoo-user] {OT} Chromium resubmits forms without prompt

2013-09-18 Thread Grant
On both my laptop and my wife's laptop, Chromium is reposting form data if I click back to a form page or if the browser restores a tab which is a form page. Actually refreshing a form page prompts me as it should. This is pretty dangerous and has caused me quite a few problems. I've scoured