Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix-remote update

2015-01-20 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 05:07 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Just ran it; it downloads http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2. It terminated with an error while writing the database file, something related to overlays not existing or something. The help page (run eix-remote with no command) tells

[gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-20 Thread James
Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: The main thing keeping me away from CephFS is that it has no mechanism for resolving silent corruption. Btrfs underneath it would obviously help, though not for failure modes that involve CephFS itself. I'd feel a lot better if CephFS had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:07 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: You can turn off COW and go single on btrfs to speed it up but bugs in ceph and btrfs lose data real fast! Interesting idea, since I'll have raid1 underneath each node. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I think the fundamental flaw with systemd is the fact that the duality of support for systemd and other init solutions is so quickly abondoned. If they were allowed (encouraged) to run side by side for a few years, let

[gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-20 Thread James
Rich Freeman rich0 at gentoo.org writes: You can turn off COW and go single on btrfs to speed it up but bugs in ceph and btrfs lose data real fast! So, btrfs and ceph solve an overlapping set of problems in an overlapping set of ways. In general adding data security often comes at the

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Urs Schütz u.sch...@bluewin.ch wrote: I changed /etc/hosts as Mick/Michael pointed out in an other reply, and this solved the slow response. Here the relevant part of the corrected, working /etc/hosts: # IPv4 and IPv6 localhost aliases 127.0.0.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 12:27 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Raid 1 with btrfs can not only protect the ceph fs files but the gentoo node installation itself. Agree 100%. Like I said, the right solution depends on your situation. If you're using the server doing ceph storage only

[gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-20 Thread Dale
Howdy, This is concerning a hard drive I had issues with a while back. I been using it to do backups with as a test if nothing else. Anyway, it seems to have issues once again. root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdd smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.16.3-gentoo] (local

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-20 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: Lennart claims that the embedded world loves systemd. I suspect that, as in other corners of the Linux world, there are lovers and haters of systemd. Embedded systems also quite often means low on resources, CPU power, memory, space. If you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-20 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 21/01/15 00:03, Rich Freeman wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:07 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Bill Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au writes: You can turn off COW and go single on btrfs to speed it up but bugs in ceph and btrfs lose data real fast! Interesting idea, since I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:03:44 + (UTC) James wrote: Interestingly, Bircoph has solve many of the problems that seem to be in my path of discovery. If you have any questions about particular issues, we may discuss them. Out of my memory for all setups we use nothing really special — standard

[gentoo-user] Software to keep track of stocks

2015-01-20 Thread Joseph
I've tried to setup some stocks in GnuCash but it does not list TSX What alternatives are to keep track of stocks under Linux. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Zitat von Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: Lennart claims that the embedded world loves systemd. I suspect that, as in other corners of the Linux world, there are lovers and haters of systemd. Embedded systems also quite

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

2015-01-20 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/20/2015 09:58 AM, Dale wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006Pre-fail Always - 114620384 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 053 051 036Pre-fail Always - 62752 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 088 088 000Old_age