Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I
had to reinstall from scratch.
Nicolas Sebrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for
everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with
r4+compression.
Well, it is
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no chance that this
filestem will become popular on many OS platforms.
btrfs is under GPL...
you can stop right here. Jörg thinks that the GPL is restrictive and the CPPL
much more
Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 16:12 +0200 schrieb GMail:
On Monday 24 November 2008 08:28:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
@William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not
bound to the local machine.
You could also use iSCSI. On your client you'll get SCSI-device-nodes
»Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have
by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is
more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for
anyone who wants to read them.
Speaking about the
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:07:26 Joerg Schilling wrote:
It ZFS was under GPL, it did not appear on FreeBSD and Mac OS X.
What I expect from a promising new filesystem is that is may be integrated
in a large variety of Platforms.
Note that I am a supporter of collaboration in OSS and that
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
»Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have
by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is
more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't
license it under GPL.
Jörg
or dual licence it. But Sun didn't dual licence their ZFS code either so ...
The problem with dual licensing is that you cannot ensure that
BRM schrieb:
I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much
uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!)
I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most
part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and
the system
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
On a similar note, what's the justification of having KDE4 in the same
tree
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options
other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
On a
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
/etc/portage/package.mask
Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click,
etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never
really looked into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed
as I've been docked for so long with a usb mouse.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options
other than removing portage
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking,
the list is big, I have to do emerge -av world each time and see the
package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again, mask it, ad
Zsitvai János wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking,
the list is big, I have to do emerge -av world each time and see the
package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again,
Iain Buchanan schrieb:
Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click,
etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never
really looked into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed
as I've been docked for so
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:14:51 +0930
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The xorg.0.log error is:
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16
[...]
any suggestions?
thanks,
Am I right, if I'm assuming, you're using HAL?
Maybe you could try this workaround from
On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zsitvai János wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking,
the list is big, I have to do emerge -av world each time and see
El mar, 25-11-2008 a las 16:17 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, 15:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Zsitvai János wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not
joking, the list is big, I have to do emerge -av world each time
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
package.mask is a file here, not a directory.
You could either tack the output to the end of your package.mask with
, or rename the current package.mask, mkdir package.mask, and move
it in there.
Or just copypaste this
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
1st of all, I'm running 2.2.x versions of portage and
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. Previous
portage was happy with that. The new portage is not. I have dozens of
packages in package.keywords that look like this:
kde-base/kdelibs
in which case portage did exactly what
Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev
and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics,
you can try to disable it.
I hope you don't consider this to be thread hijacking, but can you
point me to a simple and high-level (but not
My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian
layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with
two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do
I need/want evdev?
I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wise to
On 25 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
...
I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3.
I can't help wondering if that's your problem. You unmasked KDE on
your own machine... now in the main tree KDE 3 is no longer masked,
but KDE 4 is available (so your machine
On November 25, 2008, Stroller wrote:
On 25 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
...
I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3.
I can't help wondering if that's your problem. You unmasked KDE on
your own machine... now in the main tree KDE 3 is no longer masked,
but
I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help
configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the
subject line.
Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference
among ntp and htpdate?
Arttu V. wrote:
On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zsitvai János wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking,
the list is big, I have to do emerge -av world
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. Previous
portage was happy with that. The new portage is not. I have dozens of
packages in package.keywords that look like this:
kde-base/kdelibs
in which case
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:44, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc).
All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked
into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click,
etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never
really looked into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I
had to reinstall from scratch.
Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it that
you had such
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 16:38:00 schrieb damian:
I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help
configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the
subject line.
Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference
among ntp
Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the
filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously
bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is
also hardly affected by filesystem . And launching programs means
mostly reading files, and
So yes, there is a difference. With htpdate, you synchronize against a _web_
server. How do you know it has a stable time source? OTOH, with ntp you
synchronize against a specialized network _time_ server which is usually
equiped with an accurate time souce*), using a protocol that was
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out
it
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree,
but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string
of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for
replacing file content
reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a
lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care
about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%.
I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly the
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the
filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously
bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is
also hardly affected by
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb:
I have no expertise to decide on that matter,
but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by
default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop
usage), no?
Most people and companies / organisations use M$
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower
but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs
don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance
goes
[...] I have no expertise to decide on that matter,
but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by
default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop
usage), no?
fedora turns on 4k stack - well knowing that it kills xfs. Do you want to
rephrase
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:57:19 Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a similar story, but for me it was JFS instead of XFS. I will
never, ever, ever use JFS for anything again. I had XFS on a file
server RAID box with a failing power supply and it died over and over
and the FS stayed functional, so
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:37:13 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the
filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously
bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is
also hardly affected
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:24:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
I have no expertise to decide on that matter,
but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by
default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop
usage), no?
I don't think that
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a
cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure.
I live in Brasil, and due to huge taxes, poor infrastructure and the
currency exchange ratio, computer
Hello,
One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of
bug 246672.
Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to
emerge it, I get:
Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'
Please check permissions and directories for broken symlinks
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:40:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
So yes, there is a difference. With htpdate, you synchronize against a
_web_ server. How do you know it has a stable time source? OTOH, with ntp
you synchronize against a specialized network _time_ server which is
usually equiped with
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto please.no.spam.here at gmail.com writes:
But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust
filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery
utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest
filesystem for a desktop user that
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backups.
get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
Jörg
--
EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED](uni)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb:
My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian
layout (with no foolish extra multimedia keys) and a PS2 mouse with
two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do
I need/want evdev?
I should put this in a more
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote:
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backups.
get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
To be fair, he was responding to a parent that asked about backing up 3.8G of
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote:
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backups.
get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
To be fair, he was responding to a
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, James wrote:
Hello,
One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of
bug 246672.
Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to
emerge it, I get:
Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'
Please check
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 13:08:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
The KDE4 ebuilds need EAPI 2 support in
James wrote:
Hello,
One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of
bug 246672.
Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to
emerge it, I get:
Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'
Please check permissions and directories for
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:43:34 Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new
SSDs.
Two weeks ago, I did some tests with a SSD (ZFS and UFS) and it is really
promising.
That's what Linux said on
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:24 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
...
but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by
default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop
usage), no?
...
No, for me ext2 = continual lost data issues from even the
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I need to investigate this deeper and do a write-up for work. I have
a
FreeBSD-7 deployment system (nothing for OpenSolaris) so I'll use that. Any
comment on ZFS performace/stability on FreeBSD?
Up to a year ago, they found a star bug every
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backups.
get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin.
He was replying to
I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is
still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file
system.
Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has brought
home to me that YMMV really does apply to filesystems. Your usage, data
...
I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I
don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think
that either
A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser
and Linux developers caused people to dislike reiserfs for
non-technical
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is
still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file
system.
Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has brought
home
Mike Williams wrote:
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 13:08:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
The KDE4 ebuilds
James wrote:
Hello,
One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of
bug 246672.
Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to
emerge it, I get:
Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions'
Please check permissions and directories for broken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Hi,
I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click,
etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never
really looked into how.
Recently I noticed it stopped working
081126 W.Kenworthy wrote:
A) reiserfs is a good filesystem,
but the battle between Hans Reiser and Linux developers
caused people to dislike reiserfs for non-technical reasons.
A is the answer. Hans Reiser is by all accounts a brilliant,
eccentric but deeply flawed individual. He did not
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
1st of all, I'm
damian wrote:
I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help
configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the
subject line.
Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference
among ntp and htpdate?
This is the first
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale:
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
does not like
W.Kenworthy wrote:
...
I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I
don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think
that either
A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser
and Linux developers caused people to dislike
How do I get the reverse dependencies of an ebuild?
I need to know which packages *explicity* depend on gentoo-headers as
I have custom headers which conflict with 2.6.27 mainline.
--
Andrey Vul
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a
Is this question now asked once a week? What is also annoying is that
people do no own research before posting to mailing lists. If you had
googled it you would have recognized a few threads _from this list_
discussing this in the not to distant past.
Dale wrote:
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my
KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any
options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?
1st of all,
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