On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my >> USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive >> lives long. >> >> Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the >> traditional ext4/xfs/etc on flash drives. >> >> Also the pen drive will be used on random hardware (which can be a >> laptop or a desktop), so what else do I need to consider other than >> using genkernel's default configuration (the livecd config, which >> enables all modules)? >> > > FWIW, I've been F2FS plus encryption with Arch and haven't had any problems. I'd suggest having anything important backed up somewhere else since it's still seen as experimental (I think). >
Of course. Pen drives are as such not very reliable, so backups are a must. > If you're using it on random hardware and want X, you'll have to include the variety of video cards you might run into (Intel, ATI, Nvidia) in your USE flags. > Will it work out the box without configuration? > Also, be wary of the predictable naming for network interfaces (enp5s0, enp9s2,etc). You might want to disable that feature using something like "net.ifnames=0" in your bootloader or a udev rule so you can just set eth0 to DHCP and it will work on most machines. > NetworkManager helps with that, or may be just run dhcpcd.
