On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 6:38 AM Dale wrote:
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> So, I created a new link to slot 4. The network came up. So,
> basically, it changed names as you suggested. I thought the purpose of
> the enp* names was that they are consistent. Adding or removing cards
> wouldn't change the names of cards,
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 7:28 AM Dale wrote:
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> First, I needed to generate a password.
Honestly, I'd stop right there, and think about WHY you're encrypting
your disks, and WHY you need a password to decrypt them. There are
many use cases and threat models to consider.
I have a whole bunch of
On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 5:12 PM Dale wrote:
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> I'm looking at buying another drive. I'm trying to avoid buying one
> with the PWDIS pin. I'm looking at the specs to see if it says anything
> about the feature, there or not there. I'm not seeing anything. This
> is what I'm looking at.
>
>
On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 6:04 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 7 May 2024 08:50:26 BST Dale wrote:
> >
> > I'm aware of what it is and the cable part. I was curious what it looks
> > like to BIOS and the OS when one is connected and that pin has the drive
> > disabled. From what I've read in
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Dale wrote:
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> Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> > All AM5 CPUs have GPUs, but in general motherboards with video outputs
> > do not require the CPU to have a GPU built in. The ports just don't
> > do anything if this is lacking, and you
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 6:33 AM Dale wrote:
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> On the AM5 link, I found a mobo that I kinda like. I still wish it had
> more PCIe slots tho.
AM5 has 28 PCIe lanes. Anything above that comes from a switch on the
motherboard.
0.1% of the population cares about having anything on their
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:20 AM Dale wrote:
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> Right now, I have a three drive setup in a removable cage for the NAS
> box.
If you only need three drives I'm sure you can find cheap used
hardware that will handle that. Odds are it will use way less power
and perform better than whatever you're
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 8:11 AM Dale wrote:
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> My biggest thing right now, finding a mobo with plenty of PCIe slots.
> They put all this new stuff, wifi and such, but remove things I do need,
> PCIe slots.
PCIe and memory capacity seem to have become the way the
server/workstation and consumer
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 3:58 AM Dale wrote:
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> Given the FX-6300 has a higher clocks speed, 3.8GHz versus 3.2GHz for
> the Phenom, I'd think the FX would be a upgrade, quite a good one at
> that. More L2 cache too. Both are 6 cores according to what I found.
> Anyone know something I don't
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 5:36 PM Wol wrote:
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> On 31/03/2024 20:38, Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
> > For commercial entities, the government could just contact the company
> > and apply pressure, no need to sneak the backdoor in. Cf. RSA .
>
> Serving a "secret compliance" notice on a third party is
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 10:59 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Sunday, 31 March 2024 13:33:20 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
> > (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev)
>
> Thanks for bringing this to our attention Rich.
>
> Is downgrading to app
(moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev)
On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 7:32 AM stefan1
wrote:
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> Had I seen someone say that a bad actor would spend years gaining the
> trust of FOSS
> project maintainers in order to gain commit access and introduce such
>
First, thanks for the Ars link in the other email. I'll give that a read.
On Mon, Feb 5, 2024 at 7:55 AM J. Roeleveld wrote:
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> On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote:
> > The main barrier is that its license isn't GPL-compatible. It is
> > FOS
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
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> On 2024-01-31, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> > In any case, these COW filesystems, much like git, store data in a
> > way that makes it very efficient to diff two snapshots and back up
> > only the data that has
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 1:42 PM Wols Lists wrote:
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> On 31/01/2024 17:56, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > I don't think there are
> > any RAID implementations that do full write journaling to protect
> > against the write hole problem, but those would obviously unde
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma wrote:
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> If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is.
> Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux?
>
The main barrier is that its license isn't GPL-compatible. It is
FOSS, but the license was basically designed to keep it from
On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 6:45 AM John Covici wrote:
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> I know you said you wanted to stay with ext4, but going to zfs reduced
> my backup time on my entire system from several hours to just a few
> minutes because taking a snapshot is so quick and copying to another
> pool is also very quick.
>
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol wrote:
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> On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals.
>
> If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm
> or btrfs or something. I've got a litt
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 1:15 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
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> Are there other backup solutions that people would like to suggest I
> look at to replace rsnapshot? I was happy enough with rsnapshot (when
> it was running), but perhaps there's something else I should consider?
>
I'd echo the other
On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 11:15 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
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> For example, if one
> of the links is down, Ubuntu is really fond of waiting a couple
> mintues for it to come up before it finishes booting. [If it doesn't
> wait for all the network interfaces, how is it going to do all that
> cloudy
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 12:24 PM n952162 wrote:
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> $ tar -xjvf /var/cache/binpkgs/dev-util/cmake-3.22.2.tbz2 ./usr/bin/cmake
> It looks to me that it's in the tarball received from gentoo.
Unless you tell portage to fetch binpkgs it won't fetch one from
Gentoo. Until very recently Gentoo
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 8:04 AM Dale wrote:
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> I'm expecting more of a consistent throughput instead of all the
> idle time. The final throughput is only around 29.32MB/s according to
> info from rsync. If it was not stopping all the time and passing data
> through all the time, I think that
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:05 AM Dale wrote:
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> I'm not to clear on this but it looks like it is using 'aes-xts-plain64'
> to me. If so, is that good enough? Is there better?
You are using the defaults, which is what you should be using, as
they're very secure. As far as I'm aware there is
On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 9:13 PM Dale wrote:
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> Sometimes I wish they would announce when they add features. Rich, you
> frequent this list. If you hear of something new, could you post it?
Sure, if a relevant topic comes up and I'm aware of it. However, I
doubt this setting is going to do
On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 4:22 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:49:24PM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
> > Anyway, when I do that and use the new passwords successfully, I make a
> > backup copy and on my rig, I can encrypt it with a right click. I then
> > shred the original.
>
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 1:05 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 11:01:48AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
>
> No, the chipset downlink is always four lanes wide.
The diagram you linked has 8, but I can't vouch for its accuracy.
Haven't looked into it for AM4
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 10:35 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 09:17:45AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
>
> > The higher-end motherboards have switches, and not all
> > the lanes may be the highest supported generation, but I don't think
> > any m
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 8:26 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> BTW: it’s APU, without the G. Because it is an Accellerated Processing Unit
> (i.e. a processor), not a GPU.
No real "reason" for it besides branding/naming/etc. They could have
called it a MPU for Mixed Processing Unit if they
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:43 AM Dale wrote:
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> I been on Newegg using their rig builder feature. Just to get rough
> ideas, I picked a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 3.7 GHz Socket AM4. Yea, I
> did a copy and paste. lol It's a bit pricey but compared to my current
> rig, I think it will run
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 5:48 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 10:14:42 BST William Kenworthy wrote:
> > That is where you set per package compiler parameters by overriding
> > make.conf settings.
>
> And which make.conf setting might achieve what I want? Careful reading
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 4:26 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 06:36:13 BST Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> A strong
> password, like a strong door lock, buys you time. Hence the general
> recommendation to change your passwords frequently.
While that can help on websites, it is
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 9:02 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 07:16:17AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > >
> > > Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
>
&g
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:13 PM Alan McKinnon wrote:
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> Whether you just let emerge do it's thing or try get it to do big packages on
> their own, everything is still going to use the same number of cpu cycles
> overall and you will save nothing.
That is true of CPU, but not RAM. The
On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:13 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 12:17:20AM -0500 schrieb Dale:
> > […]
> > The downside, only micro ATX and
> > mini ITX mobo. This is a serious down vote here.
>
> Why is that bad? µATX comes with up to four PCIe slots. Even for ten drives,
On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 4:38 AM William Kenworthy wrote:
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> On 4/9/23 16:04, Nuno Silva wrote:
> >
> > (But note that Rich was suggesting using the *search* feature of the
> > gitweb interface, which, in this case, also finds the same topmost
> > commit if I search for "reedsolomon".)
> >
> tkx,
On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 4:44 AM Michael wrote:
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> On Sunday, 3 September 2023 07:49:36 BST William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Hi , I used to be able to get old ebuilds from "the attic" but I cant
> > find it on google - is it still around?
>
> Perhaps have a look here at the archives?
>
>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 6:22 AM Victor Ivanov wrote:
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> My existing make.conf has:
>
> COMMON_FLAGS="-march=skylake -O2 -pipe"
> CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse
> sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"
>
> 1) Replace "-march=skylake" with "x86_64[-v1|v2|v3|v4]" or just
On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 4:29 AM efeizbudak wrote:
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> I use genkernel to make my initramfs and I am passing the crypt_swap,
> crypt_swap_keydev and crypt_swap_key options but I'm guessing that since
> /dev/sda2 comes before /dev/sda3, the initramfs tries to decrypt that one
> first. How can I
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 6:18 AM Jacques Montier wrote:
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> Well, well, Rich, you are completely right, you've found the key !
> I have that line in make.conf
> INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd/system /usr/lib/systemd/system"
> I now see where it comes from.
> On the same machine, I have another
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 4:43 AM Jacques Montier wrote:
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> As I didn't mask anything, I don't understand why this file was not installed
> as it was declared in the apache ebuild...
You don't have anything set in INSTALL_MASK? Check "emerge --info
www-servers/apache"
You might want to check
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 3:32 PM Jacques Montier wrote:
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> After install, apache2.service not found...
Have you done something to mask service file installs/etc?
The unit file is in the gentoo repo:
www-servers/apache/files/apache2.4-hardened.service
--
Rich
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 9:47 AM Matt Connell wrote:
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> I usually try not to edit any files that are 'managed' by packages, but
> sometimes it is unavoidable (eg. no thing.conf.d directory support), so
> I wind up having to either accept the change and then re-edit it, or
> zap the change and
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 9:14 AM Matt Connell wrote:
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> On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 23:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > After update I get:
> > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating.
> >
> > What is this, don't remember seeing it before.
> >
> > cfg-update -u
> > doesn't give
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 5:30 AM Wols Lists wrote:
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> On 27/03/2023 01:18, Dale wrote:
> > Thanks for any light you can shed on this. Googling just leads to a ton
> > of confusion. What's true 6 months ago is wrong today. :/ It's hard
> > to tell what still applies.
>
> Well, back in the days
On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 6:37 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Bogomips seems to be vry simple, because it takes the current frequency
> into account. So the number will be low when your PC idles and very high
> when you compile something. The “bogo” stands for bogus for a reason.
>
Just to
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 6:01 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Gamer boards tend to skimp on ports, because those people generally care
> mostly for their GPU (plus design and RGB).
Well, that, and the CPU only has so many PCIe lanes and adding ports
beyond that requires a switch. Also, if they
On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:24 AM Dale wrote:
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> According to my google searches, PCIe x4 is faster
> than PCIe x1. It's why some cards are PCIe x8 or x16. I think video
> cards are usually x16. My question is, given the PCIe x4 card costs
> more, is it that much faster than a PCIe x1?
It
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici wrote:
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> hmmm, but what should I use for the source ip, I only assign those
> when I bring the interface up when I start the interface -- I have
> something like this:
> [Unit]
> Description=Network Connectivity for %i
> ...
> So, before I run this, I
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 8:39 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> I've just looked at 'man make', from which it's clear that -j = --jobs, and
> that both those and --load-average are passed to /usr/bin/make, presumably
> untouched unless portage itself has identically named variables. So I wonder
> how
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 5:32 AM Andreas Fink wrote:
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> On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 09:53:30 +
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> > Yes, I was aware of that, but why didn't --load-average=32 take precedence?
> This only means that emerge would not schedule additional package job
> (where a package job
On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 6:50 AM John Covici wrote:
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> The sending computer has two nics, eno1 for the internal network and
> eno2 is on the internet. So, my netconsole stanza said
> netconsole=@192.168.0.1/eno1,@192.168.0.2
Is CONFIG_NETCONSOLE enabled for your kernel?
I'm not sure if the
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 9:10 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote:
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> On 2023-02-15 08:11:46, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > If, as you say, it will eventually replace eselect, there is no more
> > bloat, just different bloat. It's still just a bunch of symlinks, but
> > managed differently.
> >
>
> Should
On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:56 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> Not long ago I read that we should allow 2GB RAM for every emerge job - that
> is, we should divide our RAM size by 2 to get the maximum number of
> simultaneous jobs. I'm trying to get that right, but I'm not there yet.
>
> I have these
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 2:54 PM John Covici wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 14:08:34 -0500,
> Rich Freeman wrote:
>>
> > will be displayed on the console briefly. You can also enable a
> > network console, which will send the dmesg output continuously over
> > U
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:08 AM John Covici wrote:
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> Hi. So, foolish me, I decided to go from a working 5.10.155 system to
> try latest lts of 5.15 which is 5.15.93. Compile, install went well,
> but the system keeps rebooting. It gets all the way and even starts
> the local services and
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 11:43 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:30 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> > My current solution is:
> > 1. Moosefs for storage: amd64 container for the master, and ARM SBCs
> > for the chunkservers which host all the USB3
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM Wols Lists wrote:
>
> On 19/12/2022 12:00, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale wrote:
> >> If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd
> >> like to have a remote tho.
>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 12:11 AM Dale wrote:
>
> If I like these Raspberry things, may make a media box out of one. I'd
> like to have a remote tho. ;-)
So, I've done that. Honestly, these days a Roku is probably the
better option, or something like a Google Chromecast or the 47 other
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:53 PM Dale wrote:
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> It took some digging around but I found out it is a AMD Phenom 9750 quad
> core.
You might want to hook a Kill-a-watt to that and see how much power it
uses. Those older AMD processors were really inefficient.
One thing I've come to appreciate
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 2:30 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> Am Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 01:07:43PM -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
> > Mostly, I need a better CPU. If I encrypt anyway.
>
> Did you ever tell us the exact CPU you have in there? All I can remember is
> it has 4 cores. And some AMD processor
On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 8:13 AM Michael wrote:
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> Actually this had me thinking what is the need to back up the ... Internet?
I'm sure the NSA knows the answer to this. Based on discussions I've
had with people who are into such things they basically have their own
Wayback machine, except it
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:30 PM Dale wrote:
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> One thing I like about the Raspberry option, I can upgrade it later. I
> can simply take out the old, put in new, upgrade done. If I buy a
> prebuilt NAS, they pretty much are what they are if upgrading isn't a
> option. Some of the more expensive
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 11:56 AM Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> Pine64 has an interesting array of SBCs which are both cheaper and (some are)
> possibly better suited to becoming a NAS than a Pi. One of them even has a
> PCIe socket I think.
>
I have the RockPro64 and I'll go ahead and warn you
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 8:59 AM Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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> You could, but this is either a sink-hole for time, or you need to get up to
> speed with cross-compiling and binhosts. I went with the standard Debian and
> evaluate Arch from time to time. But I do run Gentoo on my DIY NAS with an
>
On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 7:37 AM Dale wrote:
>
> Path two, I've researched building a NAS using a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB as
> another option. They come as parts, cases too, but the newer and faster
> models of Raspberry Pi 4 with more ram seem to work pretty well.
For this sort of application the key
On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 11:40 PM Dale wrote:
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> I found a new version of the nvidia-drivers. I figured it might work
> with the new 6.0 kernel so I tested it. Sure enough, it compiled and
> installed.
And this is why compiling isn't evidence that something works. :)
What nvidia driver
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:10 AM Dale wrote:
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> I'm back to my old kernel tho since my nvidia-drivers won't work with a
> kernel that high. I run into this on rare occasions.
They are only rare because you aren't updating regularly.
If you want to run external kernel modules like
On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 2:13 PM Wol wrote:
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> The idea behind stable kernels is great. The implementation leaves a lot
> to be desired and, as always, the reason is not enough manpower.
>
Two things: first, LTS kernels aren't the same as stable kernels.
Dale has been running stable kernels, and
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 1:25 AM Dale wrote:
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> Is there some major change that causes copying .config file from 5.14 to
> 5.18 or higher to break?
So, I just upgraded to 5.15 recently and tend to stick to LTS kernels,
precisely to minimize this sort of thing.
My guess is that you missed
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 5:26 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> On 2022-10-26, Dale wrote:
> > Rich Freeman wrote:
> >> If you use an x11-based merge tool then it will also refuse to attempt
> >> an automatic
> >> merge if X11 isn't available. (Obviously you c
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:24 PM Grant Edwards
wrote:
>
> On 2022-10-26, Corbin wrote:
> > Help!
> >
> > The last update I did built/installed bin-uitls. It is now producing
> > seg-faults. I forgot to make a quickpkg of the old bin-utils before
> > upgrading.
>
> The first thing I would do is
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 1:15 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:21:06 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> > > dispatch-conf even gives you the opportunity to edit it before
> > > applying.
> >
> > Yep.
> >
> > I almost always reject the changes suggested on config files that I've
> >
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:42 AM Ramon Fischer wrote:
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> I do not know, what the developers were thinking to encourage the user
> to edit a default file, which gets potentially overwritten after each
> package update...
>
> "etc-update" helps to have an eye on, but muscle memory and fast fingers
On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 8:21 AM johnstrass wrote:
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>
> Why is the logind so fragile?
Have you checked your logs. I'm guessing that the kernel OOM killer
is killing it, and it is kind of hard for a process to not die when
the kernel kills it.
> Why cannot it be brought up again after the
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:16 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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>
> 1. dracut: 90crypt: Could not find any command of '/lib/systemd/systemd-
> cryptsetup cryptsetup'!
>
> ...and similar for bluetooth.
>
> What do I have to include in /etc/dracut.conf.d/mine.conf to silence these? I
> already omit the
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 12:17 PM Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> If something you need for booting with separate /usr is missing that would be
> a FSH bug and is probably worth reporting unless you're doing something truly
> arcane with your system.
>
You can always ask upstream but just about
On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 1:40 AM Dale wrote:
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> Now to replace my /home drive which is also close to full. It's not
> encrypted tho. The biggest difference in this and plain LVM, resizing
> with cryptsetup or close and reopen. Keep in mind, while I did all
> this, LUKS, cryptsetup, whatever was
On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 9:56 PM Dale wrote:
>
> I suspect this would happen on its own but I'd like to make sure. I'd
> hate to mess up the file system badly on any of my drives or in a worst
> case scenario, brick a hard drive with some 1 in a million chance problem.
>
I just wanted to comment
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:32 AM Wols Lists wrote:
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> On 28/08/2022 15:21, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > Something I wish linux supported was discardable memory, for
> > caches/etc. A program should be able to allocate memory while passing
> > a hint to the kerne
On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 8:24 AM Dale wrote:
>
> What I would like to do is limit the amount of memory torrent
> software can use.
While ulimit/cgroups/etc will definitely do the job, they're probably
not the solution you want. Those will cause memory allocation to
fail, and I'm guessing at that
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 10:09 AM Mark Knecht wrote:
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> Obviously you can do what you are most comfortable with but to me a NAS
> machine with a bunch of external drives does not sound very reliable.
>
I would have thought the same, but messing around with LizardFS I've
found that the USB3 hard
On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 7:26 AM Dale wrote:
>
> I looked into the Raspberry and the newest version, about $150 now, doesn't
> even have SATA ports.
The Pi4 is definitely a step up from the previous versions in terms of
IO, but it is still pretty limited. It has USB3 and gigabit, and they
don't
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 2:59 PM Dale wrote:
>
> While at it, can I move the drives on LVM to another system without
> having to copy anything? Just physically move the drives and LVM see
> them correctly on the new system?
As long as we aren't talking about boot partitions/sectors, the answer
On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 8:43 AM Dale wrote:
>
> I've already got data on the drive now with the default settings so it
> is to late for the moment however, I expect to need to add drives
> later. Keep in mind, I use LVM which means I grow file systems quite
> often by adding drives. I don't
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:50 AM Laurence Perkins wrote:
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> Note that 60ish MB/sec is very reasonable for a rotational drive. They *can*
> technically go faster, but only if you keep the workload almost entirely
> sequential. Most filesystems require a fair amount of seeking to write
>
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 3:15 PM Dale wrote:
>
> Related question. Does encryption slow the read/write speeds of a drive
> down a fair amount? This new 10TB drive is maxing out at about
> 49.51MB/s or so.
Encryption won't impact the write speeds themselves of course, but it
could introduce a
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:04 PM Dale wrote:
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>
> Part. # SizePartition TypePartition Name
>
> 1007.0 KiB free space
>19.1 TiB Linux filesystem 10Tb
> 1007.5
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 3:41 PM Dale wrote:
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> Glad to know what I found was good info. I just wonder how long it will
> be before even 10TB drives will be SMR. I also dread having to search
> out a 14TB drive later. :/
>
I think it will be a long time if ever, and here is why.
There are
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 3:28 PM Dale wrote:
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> Given my weird way of doing backups, rsync may be the best option.
> Plus, easier to restore from as well since it just requires a copy
> command, any of them will do.
>
If you don't make small changes inside of large files, you might
actually be
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 3:20 PM J. Roeleveld wrote:
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> Actually, you can with the "-p / --pause" option.
> Also, as per the man-page, if you forget this, the process will simply inform
> you the target location is full and you can move slices away to a different
> location:
> "
> If the
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 2:34 PM J. Roeleveld wrote:
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> Actually, there still is a piece of software that does this:
> " app-backup/dar "
> You can tell it to split the backups into slices of a specific size.
dar is a great tool, but unless something changed I don't think you
can tell it to
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 2:32 PM Wol wrote:
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> On 15/08/2022 11:11, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > I see lots of talk of NAS and zfs/btrfs and snapshots. IMO these are
> > NOT really great solutions for backup. NAS can work of course but it
> > is overkill for backup storage.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 3:05 AM Dale wrote:
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> Rich Freeman wrote:
> >
> > Duplicity uses librsync, so it backs up exactly the same data as rsync
> > would, except instead of replicating entire files, it creates streams
> > of data more like something like tar
On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:44 PM Dale wrote:
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> I plan to buy another hard drive pretty soon. Next month is possible.
> If there is nothing available that does what I want, is there a way to
> use rsync and have it set to backup files starting with "a" through "k"
> to one spot and then backup
On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 6:44 PM Dale wrote:
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> Right now, I'm using rsync which doesn't compress files but does just
> update things that have changed. I'd like to find some way, software
> but maybe there is already a tool I'm unaware of, to compress data and
> work a lot like rsync otherwise.
On Sun, Aug 7, 2022 at 11:36 AM Michael wrote:
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> The best a well configured VPN tunnel can offer is a secure connection between
> client and VPN server, which is handy if you are out and about using untrusted
> and insecure WiFi hotspots.
>
> The only other reason for using a VPN service is to
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 6:57 AM Dale wrote:
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> I also want to use a VPN but only for some programs. Example, I want
> Ktorrent and a couple Firefox profiles to use VPNs but at least one
> Firefox profile I want to remain outside of VPN.
I can't keep up with which VPNs are more or less scummy
On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 10:27 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
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> Then I went to my ~amd64 machine and looked for the same news item - and
> there was no sign of anything about either pulse or pipe. This machine has no
> working sound hardware, but even so, how did the news function know not to
> fetch
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 1:10 PM Wols Lists wrote:
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> On 05/07/2022 17:44, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > hat and its dependencies. Obviously you need to be caught up before
> > things get removed from the repo, but the offending package itself
> > will get removed when that hap
On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 12:36 PM Jack wrote:
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> On 2022.07.05 12:24, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > On 2022-07-05, William Kenworthy wrote:
> >
> > > I synced portage a couple of days now and now my systems are
> > rebuilding
> > > python modules for 3.10 without any input from me [...]
> >
> > Every
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