On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Linux Rocks! wrote: > T. Joseph CARTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 05:37:04PM -0800, Linux Rocks! wrote: > > > So, Meeting Tonite... > > > > > > Looks like Joseph will be demonstrating his oldworld skills on reletively > > > new > > > computer gear (brand new last year technology). > > > > Results of that: > > > > Jamie's cardboard-covered pool table is an almost flat surface to work on, > > but the lighting was inefficient for Joseph's eyes. Great thanks is owed > > to Mike O for his expertise--he was able to accomplish in a few minutes a > > series of tasks which would have taken me at least an hour's frustration. > > > > In the end, we got the box together with an evil OS, Ubuntu, space for > > another Linux with shared /home, and a yet-unformatted space I intend to > > put FreeBSD on. > > > > > > I have some very positive things and some very negative things to say > > about the ASUS Terminator barebones case, but have to be at an elementary > > school in about 8 hours, so will not say them now. > > > > My DVD reader was not working right. We left Jamie dismantling it to try > > and resurrect the drive by cleaning the crap out of it. (It's old.) I > > hope to hear that he got it working next week, since it was a faithful > > drive for many years. > > heh.. I got I'll see if I can have it working by next meeting :) > > > > > Claimed a GF2 (sorry again Neil!) because X11 didn't like my SiS video and > > I couldn't be bothered to make it work since I had the AGP slot. > I have 2 computers with SIS video, they are kind of crappy video > compared to todays 3d cards, but mine did work... > > > > > > > > I have Ubunto CD's (the live cd, and the 2 install cd for i386), I dont > > > have > > > my knoppix or gentoo cd's (left them at a friends...). I have slack 10 > > > install cd's (they both are bootable). > > > > I took one of these and am using it now. I must admit that I was greatly > > pleased to change the DPI setting in the Gnome registry to 130 DPI and > > find that suddenly all of Ubuntu's live CD was readable by a Joseph at > > high resolution. Now there is just that the Gnome applications for this > > machine's intended purpose are horrid next to the equivalent bits of KDE. > > ;) > > We did have a visit from Ed, he had a new packet of ubuntu cds :) > > Larry Graciously dontated a router for the livingroom, so now we can > have wired computers... > > Larry and I picked up (gotta clean up the pizza ghosts from previous > meetings!) the place a bit. > > MrO made a magical aprearance... he was soo helpful, he helped Joseph > build his new computer, and helped me build a new kernel. He also turned > me on to swaret (a slackware package tool). I have to read up on it, it > looks pretty handy. > > During the meeting we did compile a new kernel, but because I have a > stupid reiserfs, I had trouble using it, as 2.6 kernels can only seem to > boot to ext partitions nativly. I built an initrd with the reiserfs, but > it wouldnt boot. I built a new kernel with reiser in the kernel (after > compiling reiserfs as a module, to make an initrd with... Anyway, I have > reiserfs support in my initrd, and in my kernel, and now it boots. > reiserfs can be a pain in the ass if its your boot partition.
I don't think that was a function of reiserfs. The reason it boots into ext2 seamlessly is because ext2 is always compiled into the kernel, not a module. Basically, if you want a file system readable at boot it has to be compiled into the kernel. -- Allen > So, anyway, after the meeting I was able to get my raid array up. > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 160074768 125387616 34687152 79% / > /dev/md/0 392047076 32828 372099400 1% /mnt/raid > > See! pretty cool huh. > So, I still have issue, it functions, but not great. > > doing hdparm -tT on my drives, I find this: > Note: > > /dev/hda: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 3124 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1561.46 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.13 MB/sec > > /dev/hde: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 3112 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1556.24 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 136 MB in 3.03 seconds = 44.95 MB/sec > > > /dev/md0: > Timing buffer-cache reads: 3084 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1540.69 MB/sec > Timing buffered disk reads: 150 MB in 3.01 seconds = 49.91 MB/sec > > My drives: Maxtor, 8M cache, ata133. hda is 160gb, hde and hdg are 200gb > > The 200 gb disks are on a sil 680 pci ide raid contoler. > the 160 is on the onboard IXP150 ide controller. > > from my basic testing with hdparm, my conclusion is that my secondary > storage (hard disks...) is fastest with just a regular ide disk on the > primary controller (about 57M/sec). I figured I would get closer to > 100M/sec on the raid, but im actually getting less performance on it, > than the regular ide. > > The raid setup is raid0, stripped array (performace). > > I may pull the dvd off the secondary contrller, and try the raid on that > controller, but it will mean 2 drives on one cable/contrller... > > Still looking for my performace.... > > Jamie > > > _______________________________________________ > > EUGLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
