[gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan
Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:54:48 +0200: I have two 500G disks, mirrored in a software-RAID0 on all partitions but swap which is on two separate 16G partitions. OK, if it's RAID-0, it's striped, not mirrored, and you have

[gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --resume question

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan
andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:38:52 -0400: No, this is incorrect. emerge -f --resume does not cross packages off the resume list. What you want to do should work properly. Hmm. New to me! (Obviously.) =8^) -- Duncan - List

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --resume question

2008-08-14 Thread Mark Haney
Duncan wrote: andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:38:52 -0400: No, this is incorrect. emerge -f --resume does not cross packages off the resume list. What you want to do should work properly. Hmm. New to me! (Obviously.) =8^)

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge --resume question

2008-08-14 Thread Mark Haney
Mark Haney wrote: Hmm. New to me! (Obviously.) =8^) Well I'll give it a shot and let you know what happens. :) Yep, I could do an 'emerge -f --resume' and have it fetch the files without trouble, then an 'emerge --resume' gets me right back where I needed to be with the resume.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: But you're correct about swap, at least if you have them set at the same priority. The kernel will automatically stripe across all swap partitions set at the same priority, so if you have multiple disks, put a swap partition on each and set the priority equal (in fstab if you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Duncan, on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 08:07:40AM +, you wrote: I have two 500G disks, mirrored in a software-RAID0 on all partitions but swap which is on two separate 16G partitions. OK, if it's RAID-0, it's striped, not mirrored, and you have NO redundancy at all. If either of those

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Richard, on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:08:26PM -0400, you wrote: Note that in such a situation if either disk fails you're likely to end up with a panic when your swap device isn't accessible. If uptime is a concern mirrored swap is better (but slower). Of course, if you're running on

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Symlinks vs. Bind mounts.

2008-08-14 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:08:26 -0400: Duncan wrote: But you're correct about swap[...] at the same priority Note that in such a situation if either disk fails you're likely to end up with a panic when your swap