8.0 BETA: touchpad taps occur while typing

2017-06-12 Thread Mayuresh
I am using base X11 of NetBSD 8.0 BETA i386. While typing on laptop keypad, thumbs inadvertently touch the mouse-touchpad and simulate double tap. In a terminal it ends up selecting part of the screen, and in graphical interfaces too many annoying things happen. What is the way to disable this?

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Jan Danielsson
On 06/12/17 15:46, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: [---] > I'm thinking about reuploading block device image for each change. I > noted in the past that people were trying to do the same with TrueCrypt, > and they give up - it's good for one-time upload of something, but it's > not usable in scenarios

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 12.06.2017 15:03, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> On 12.06.2017 14:45, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: You would need to push large part image of an

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 02:55:48PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > On 12.06.2017 14:45, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > >> > >> You would need to push large part image of an encrypted volume for every > >> change to files. > > >

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
On 12.06.2017 14:45, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: >> >> You would need to push large part image of an encrypted volume for every >> change to files. > > That doesn't make sense to me. Why would you need to push more blocks > than

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:41:56PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > You would need to push large part image of an encrypted volume for every > change to files. That doesn't make sense to me. Why would you need to push more blocks than actually changed? -- Thor Lancelot Simon

Re: Can NetBSD cgd be used for encrypted backup?

2017-06-12 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 07:51:00AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 09:59:17PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 06:12:58PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > > > I have used cgd for remote encrypted backups in the past: > > > > > > - remote offers a

Re: RAIDframe and alignment on 4K-sector disks?

2017-06-12 Thread John D. Baker
On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 04:55:52 - (UTC), mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) wrote: > Currently best practice for such a RAID is: > > -> align the RAID partition(s) on each component to 4k A given. That's all these components are going to do, so 0 % 8 == 0. > -> use a stripe size of 64k

Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

2017-06-12 Thread Mayuresh
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 06:37:01AM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote: > > I don't think the BIOS does disk accesses. So the "clunky sounds" are > caused by the drive itself. It's also likely that this is the normal > state of operation, so while it may make irritating sounds, it won't > damage