[gentoo-user] DebugFS

I see that DebugFS is getting mounted very early on in the boot sequence. I want to keep it enabled in the kernel, but not automatically mounted. What mounts it? How can I stop it? Thanks, Mark pgpZOmF3N5lI3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DebugFS

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:29:43AM +, Mark Somerville wrote: I see that DebugFS is getting mounted very early on in the boot sequence. I want to keep it enabled in the kernel, but not automatically mounted. What mounts it? How can I stop it? In typical style, I solved it almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:45:04PM +, Mick wrote: Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my memory!) What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off line? I like rdiff-backup, which gives incremental backups over rsync. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] SLAB or SLUB in the kernel?

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:20:15AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, after a reiserfs3 disaster, I went back and stick to ext3. I too have been using SLUB on my desktop since .22 was stable. No problems, but no noticable speed increase. I'm also on ext3 aftar a Reiserfs 3 disaster! Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backing up my box

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:57:49PM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote: (Supposing both boxes are Linux ones) Sometime I use app-backup/rdiff-backup, it's quite easy and effective. I've started using rdiff-backup, it's really nice. Thanks a lot for the pointer! Mark pgpXtbxYMJBsn.pgp

[gentoo-user] Backing up my box

I've got an 8Gb Gentoo virtual machine that I'm working out a backup plan for. Since the disk space is pretty small, I'm thinking about just taking a full image of the disk for backups, rather than cherry-picking DBs, mail, etc. I'd like to take a full image every day (but only transfer the