Re: F18, efi-bootable live images

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Andreas Tunek wrote: livecd-iso-to-disk --format --reset-mbr --efi --reset-mbr and --efi are conflicting options. I don't know if the script automatically negates one of them or if you just end up with a messed up USB stick. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list

Re: F18, efi-bootable live images

2012-10-02 Thread Chris Murphy
this. I guess I vaguely recall from F17 that --reset-mbr --efi gets you a hybrid MBR/GPT thing that did work for me, but I didn't realize that was an expected outcome that it worked. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: (Apparently Apple does the same thing? Not that that's directly relevant, but we're not completely out in the weeds here.) Admin users are place in group admin. Not wheel. Only root is in wheel. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Murphy
to get wrapped lines in a pager. Fixed in F18. Not for me. I get one result for the first command, and 20+ for the second: journalctl | grep btrfs cat /var/log/messages | grep btrfs systemd-194-1.fc18.x86_64 Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Murphy
Choose your add-ons Minimal Install Documentation Alternatively, include the man files in the Standard add-on? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
rsyslog.service all seem related. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: replacing rsyslogd in minimal with journald [was Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes]

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 10.10.12 14:39, Chris Murphy (li...@colorremedies.com) wrote: How is rsyslog properly disabled? sockets.target syslog.target rsyslog.service all seem related. systemctl disable rsyslog.service should suffice. I did

Re: systemd requires HTTP server and serves QR codes

2012-10-14 Thread Chris Murphy
in the future, by way of kickstart commands, but that's not something we're going to expose in the UI. Infrastructure Server option comes pretty close, I think. 800MB vs 1.1G, no-GUI, but does appear to have docs. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Samsung RF-511 wpa_supplicant crashes under kernel 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
' and I recover after using yum erase. It's on a Core 2 Duo. EFI booting. Only with 3.6.1-1, previous kernels are OK. Chris Murphy-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Samsung RF-511 wpa_supplicant crashes under kernel 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
to be a habit. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Samsung RF-511 wpa_supplicant crashes under kernel 3.6.1-1.fc17.x86_64

2012-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
-broadcom-4312 b43 with the extracted firmware doesn't support 802.11N on BCM4321, and brcmsmac doesn't support the BCM4321 at all. But oops vs 802.11g, I guess it's not quite a toss up. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: simple-mtpfs Re: Orphaning: mtpfs (FUSE filesystem for MTP devices like Android tablets)

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Murphy
/ff632508(prot.20).aspx Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: secure boot: how to disable this crap?

2012-10-27 Thread Chris Murphy
regardless of what the uefi says… I don't think that's the case, or possibly you've stumbled on a bug. You have UEFI 2.3.1 based hardware that implements Secure Boot and it's enabled? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 2, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi ke...@scrye.com wrote: On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:32:20 -0500 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-12-02 19:21 (GMT) bugzi...@redhat.com composed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=872826 --- Comment #19 from Chris Murphy

Re: [Bug 872826] f18 anaconda - no option to install bootloader to a partition

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Murphy
is actually Btrfs by default, and then grub2-install to a partition can be employed once again and simply just work without extra effort on the part of the user as is the case with work around 1. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Blocker Bug Voting and Conversation

2012-12-04 Thread Chris Murphy
blockers not via documentation but by mimicking blocker bugs, or from the email list. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub (v1) in f18?

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Murphy
ways easier than dealing with grub. http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-December/174786.html And if there's a use case for UEFI VM's, why not use EFISTUB instead of grub? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: grub (v1) in f18?

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Murphy
. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub (v1) in f18?

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:25:21PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: Why is a boot manager needed for a virtualized guest? It seems like all you need is to point to a virtual disk (or current or past snapshot) and go

Re: Grub2

2012-12-09 Thread Chris Murphy
conflict with GRUB Legacy commands, e.g. grub-install vs grub2-install. It's confusing. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Murphy
is saying no you can't use other tools and have me install there, only through me do you get any kind of installation. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: requirement to (re)format volumes when installing

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 14:43 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: 1. To properly install to hardware RAID 0, 10, 5, 6, I effectively have to learn kickstart. I can properly create the volumes myself, informing the file system

Re: grub2-tools and UEFI/GPT

2012-12-12 Thread Chris Murphy
called the EFI System partition which must be specified when using the install command. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Murphy
, then colord would still enable something useful. But I suspect you have at least one color display. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Mer 19 décembre 2012 20:26, Chris Murphy a écrit : If you have a bw display and only bw printers, then colord would still enable something useful. But I suspect you have at least one color display

Re: Why samba-client not installed by default?

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Murphy
. Is it reasonable for me to complain about some program that has a libtiff dependency if I say it didn't depend on libtiff before, I don't use TIFF, therefore there should be no dependency now? Of course not. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: pulseaudio maintainership status

2012-12-28 Thread Chris Murphy
it could introduce any number of other bugs. Yeah, the F18 ship has sailed, we're way past freeze. In fact it needs to be in Rawhide soon enough to get into F19. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
Documentation says The GRUB menu defaults to being hidden, except on dual-boot systems. but as far as I know this hasn't been true since Fedora 16 when GRUB2 started being used. Is there a plan to revert back to a hidden GRUB menu at some point or is the current behavior stable? Chris Murphy

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:00 PM, Máirín Duffy du...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu 03 Jan 2013 04:55:22 PM EST, Chris Murphy wrote: Documentation says The GRUB menu defaults to being hidden, except on dual-boot systems. but as far as I know this hasn't been true since Fedora 16 when GRUB2

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891756 Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
don't have hardware to test, it's all multi-boot. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GRUB menu hidden by default?

2013-01-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2013-01-03 17:44 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed: My recollection on actual hardware though for F16 and F17 is that I see a GRUB menu. At the moment I don't have hardware to test, it's all multi-boot. Maybe you

mactel boot revisited, updating to grub2

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
. Comments? What's weird is a beta or early final TC, Live CD written direct to a USB stick, booted this same hardware to graphical Gnome without this problem. So I'm not sure what's going on. Chris Murphy-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

GRUB2 packages, fedup

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
do have /etc/grub.d/ files, which is part of one or both of those packages. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: GRUB2 packages, fedup

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:22 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: What package is responsible for writing the file /etc/default/grub? Because a prior EFI system with grub-efi, which of course doesn't have an /etc/default/grub, doesn't have it after a fedup upgrade, and still doesn't

Re: mactel boot revisited, updating to grub2

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:16:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: cp /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg Make sure

Re: mactel boot revisited, updating to grub2

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jan 8, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:16:52PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: cp /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grubx64.efi /boot/efi/EFI/System/Library/CoreServices

Re: GRUB2 packages, fedup

2013-01-08 Thread Chris Murphy
files are in /boot/efi/EFI/redhat. The replacement grub2 files go in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora. So I'd expect the old ones to remain behind. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-16 Thread Chris Murphy
. I'm not sure if systemd and dracut will handle rootfs defined by subvolid. This is more stable, as the subvolume can be renamed or moved, and things still work. Whereas with subvol (name) things can break. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https

Re: Why do we have a kernel with version number - 20X?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Murphy
? 7xx, 8xx, 9xx, 0xx, The first number of a Fedora release seems mostly superfluous. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
with minimal metadata writes might mean you're at 92% capacity. So which is correct to report? It depends on future usage, which is unknown. Small problem. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
as Btrfs volumes don't. Not implemented yet, but planned is per subvolume and per file raid levels, so in that case we have to be literal about the reported size of volume being the combined capacity of all block devices in the Btrfs volume. Or you get a real problem. Chris Murphy -- devel

Re: Status to make btsfs to the standard filesystem of Fedora

2013-01-24 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 24, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: 2x 80GB virtual disks, mkfs.btrfs -d raid1 -m raid1: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb160G 56K 158G 1% /mnt Also, copying a 1G file to /mnt, and I end up with: # df -h

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
from download to upgrade without notification, concomitant with the potential for arbitrary and untimely implosion that could hose the entire upgrade. And this is on a supposedly important computer that can't be down for 2 hours? Umm? I really don't understand this thread. Chris Murphy -- devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
, and things may be sluggish. Chances are your videos won't stutter, but I guess that depends on the video bit rate, effectiveness of disk and file system read ahead, and application buffering all are. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
process before the ship will in fact sink. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Fedora Upgrade - using yum

2013-01-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 26.01.2013 19:09, schrieb Chris Murphy: I just don't see how it's best practices to be doing updates on live processes. This seems sorta like a game to find out just how much one can cheat the upgrade process

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
, and for valid reasons. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: New firstboot

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
is any more or less, sensible than top posting. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
themselves. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
, looking to implement it. So I'm not certain that it's strictly an installer limitation. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
is broken? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 29, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: Am 29.01.2013 20:30, schrieb Chris Murphy: On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:56 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: grub2 in fedora is simply broken in this case https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Add LVM Thin provisioning support to the yum-fs-snapshot plugin

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
May. Has this changed? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: kworker is using up a lot of CPU

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
and no kworker process CPU % is significant. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
to explain how the kernel has 1/2 the time on a core2duo+HDD, compared to corei7+SSD, I can accept that offline.) Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
no journal single partition, VDI, VirtualBox, on OS X, on SSD. So that's two hits (vbox and xnu). Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
the lack of this command causes boot failure, but I'd like to know what component the bug should be filed against. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
.fc18. At the time of the mass yum update, this is the version of grubby that was installed; while the update applied 8.22-1.fc18. I don't know if the old or the new is used in such a case. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:33 PM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: I'd go for grubby. This sounds vaguely familiar, though - try searching bugzilla for 'initrdefi' first, to see if there's an existing report

Re: grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 29, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I've installed a few kernels with both grubby-8.20-1 and 8.22-1 and the problem consistently occurs with both of them. Do I reopen the bug, or file a new one? OK I see the problem, I think. For grub.cfg in /boot

Re: grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-29 Thread Chris Murphy
for GRUB modules in /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi, and also installs the modules in that folder. And it looks in /boot/grub2 for grub.cfg. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: CUPS 1.6

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Murphy
/UX part isn't much different on Windows, but the color management ideology is, and that actually helps rather significantly for those who actually care about such things. So the hopeful idea is to mimic the successes of these companies, and avoid the mistakes. Should be easy. Ha! Chris Murphy

Re: grub linuxefi initrdefi

2013-01-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 29, 2013, at 8:15 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: The Fedora prebaked grubx64.efi doesn't include all GRUB modules (e.g. lvm, xnu) and it isn't looking for standalone GRUB modules in the location that grub2-install can install them into. And anaconda doesn't call

Re: Proposed F19 Feature: CUPS 1.6

2013-01-31 Thread Chris Murphy
of inkjet printers to something reasonable, while also not exposing dangerous and mutually exclusive options in the print (driver) dialog GUI. I haven't looked at this in Fedora yet. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)

2013-09-05 Thread Chris Murphy
fedora setups and *before* F19 nobody and nothing touched grub.cfg due kernel update slike F19 Grubby has touched grub.cfg after kernel updates for a very long time. Since at least F15. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-07 Thread Chris Murphy
and / or just /. But if it's the former, it ends the debate about installing the bootloader on a partition. XFS has no bootloader pad at all so it isn't possible. On EFI systems, it doesn't matter. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-21 Thread Chris Murphy
have multiple ways to either reformat existing partitions, or destroy individual partitions, or destroy all partitions. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code

Re: Ananconda

2013-09-23 Thread Chris Murphy
, but yes you can't reuse an existing subvolume for rootfs for a new install. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Murphy
by default for ssds with btrfs either. And with dm-crypt there's a security concern in that it exposes massive zero'd holes on the device instead of current data being obscured by stale data. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman

systemd journal interaction with btrfs, unfixable corruption

2013-09-24 Thread Chris Murphy
somehow (although I don't think it's related to balance, I could be wrong), and the solution is to set VM images to nodatacow. So I wonder if there's some behavior of systemd journaling that's similar? Bug is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1011714 Chris Murphy -- devel mailing

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Murphy
maintains. Yes, fair point. I should have qualified the assertion better to indicate default discard to the physical device is probably not a good idea. Or maybe it needs to get smarter, and initiated when the fs isn't particularly busy. A kind of delayed discard. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 25, 2013, at 8:56 AM, Ric Wheeler rwhee...@redhat.com wrote: On 09/25/2013 10:48 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Ric Wheeler rwhee...@redhat.com wrote: We should not confuse TRIM that gets handled at the device layer (and is a slow, non-queued S-ATA command

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: So as it turns out some devices get really busy and slow down when TRIM is used, so not all devices are well suited for discard and therefore it's probably not a good idea for it to be set

Re: Default boot/root filesystem

2013-09-25 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 25, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Michael Cronenworth m...@cchtml.com wrote: Chris Murphy wrote: https://patrick-nagel.net/blog/archives/337 He provides no reliable testing method. I don't consider his results to be scientific or useful. One blogger will not be enough evidence. You say

LVM thinp expectations in anaconda 20

2013-09-27 Thread Chris Murphy
? And is the main idea in this roll out just to support the better faster thinp snapshots? Or am I missing something? Thanks, Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code

Re: bcache-tools and bcache support in other linux packages

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
attached, no destination for installation. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: LVM thinp expectations in anaconda 20

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 27, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Alasdair G Kergon a...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:55:43AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I still can't choose a Desired Capacity that's larger than free space in the VG. Ergo, I can't create a virtual size LV. Is this expected? At this stage

Re: LVM thinp expectations in anaconda 20

2013-09-30 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sep 30, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Alasdair G Kergon a...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:04:08AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: For an LV to take advantage of thinp snapshots needs to be a virtual size LV drawn from the thin pool, correct? So it is a virtual size LV in any case, it's

Re: F19 server install experience

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Murphy
one naming convention in its UI, but upon reboot the installed system uses a different naming convention. And neither convention helps me know which of two ethernets are being used. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: F19 server install experience

2013-10-03 Thread Chris Murphy
now, and it's always reporting pXpY even though anaconda reports enp* or enc* or whatever. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: Red Hat and Fedora Working Groups

2013-10-08 Thread Chris Murphy
, that's merely in opposition with another, is the way forward. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

custom kernel, how to revert patch

2013-10-09 Thread Chris Murphy
it manually with patch -p0 -R ? Chris Murphy-- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: How to mount USB memory stick on F18 on Dracut

2013-10-14 Thread Chris Murphy
what you want to mount needs to be formatted ext234 at this stage of the startup process. It may even need to be ext2. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
on Windows, since HP released My Display as a separate program), but again I'm not sure. You'd have to reverse engineer or ask HP/Apple what they actually do for this to work. then implement that. Or maybe Intel would be forthcoming. It's their hardware. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel

Re: Target Display Mode in Fedora

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:36:32AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Or maybe Intel would be forthcoming. It's their hardware. Not in this case. Target display mode is a vendor extension, and switching it will be vendor

Re: Sunday 13th of October: SSD cache test day

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
potential for fs corruption in the face of unclean shutdowns, compared to a non-cached hard drive… assuming there are no bugs that make this supposition wrong. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code

LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
, but I'm wondering if it should work. If not, is there a rough time frame on such support? Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:29:38PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: The better snapshots sound ideal for VM testing. Snapshot a successful install and then try to break the snapshot. Etc. Presently virt-manager ignores

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Josh Stone jist...@redhat.com wrote: On 10/15/2013 02:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:29:38PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: The better snapshots sound ideal for VM testing. Snapshot a successful install and then try to break the snapshot

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:29 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:04:28PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: I'm happy to hear it argued I should instead use the LV space for a regular partition formatted ext2 and drop the qcow2 file there. There's still overhead

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Richard W.M. Jones rjo...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:09:25PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Caching mode was none in all prior cases. Note that cache=none is almost never useful. It bypasses the host cache so you don't get the benefit of having

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I made the suggested cache change for both LVM and qcow2; and created the qcow2 file as suggested (adding lazy_refcount): Fedora 20 default standard partition guided install (ext4) to an LV takes 18m02s

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 16, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Fedora 20 default BTRFS guided install to qcow2 on XFS, install time 17m21s. Firstboot systemd-analyze: 874ms (kernel) + 1.558s (initrd) + 12.866s (userspace) = 15.300s From above, two changes: 1. Use virt-manager

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: So whatever options virt-manager is using to create qcow2 files, is either the same as -o preallocation=metadata,compat=1.1,lazy_refcounts=on, or any difference in options isn't making a difference in performance

Re: LVM thin provisioning and virt-manager

2013-10-17 Thread Chris Murphy
On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: On 10/17/2013 07:09 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: So whatever options virt-manager is using to create qcow2 files, is either the same as -o

Re: Fedora 20 Beta blocker bug status: fix and karma requests

2013-10-20 Thread Chris Murphy
, they don't need to be in fstab. There are few bugs filed as a result of the ensuing confusion. So it might be new behavior in anaconda 20.25.1 to ignore the request to reuse existing swap by adding it to fstab since it knows systemd is going to use it in any case. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list

Re: Fedora 20 Beta blocker bug status: fix and karma requests

2013-10-21 Thread Chris Murphy
/should systemd use UniquePartitionGUID in the GPT for swap partitions rather than the swap volume format UUID? The UniquePartitionGUID is more stable. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct

various mishandlings of corrupt GPT

2013-10-23 Thread Chris Murphy
it until the other GPT is toast. And the UEFI spec amusingly requires the user be asked for confirmation before restoring a primary GPT, which is probably not in either the kernel nor systemd's job description. So that's why I ask if it makes sense to have an fsck for GPT disks. Chris Murphy

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