Re: [gentoo-releng] Is there any changelog for the futur 2008.0 feature

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Sylvain Alain wrote: There a lot of threads on this list about new features, but there is no summary of all the changes that will occur. For the most part, the only things that have changed are the "openness" of the release process (like the public meeting, the beta, and a few other things) an

[gentoo-releng] Is there any changelog for the futur 2008.0 feature

2008-02-05 Thread Sylvain Alain
Hi, I would like to know, if there is any documentation about the new 2008.0 profile and also for the new minimal CD and the Universal CD. There a lot of threads on this list about new features, but there is no summary of all the changes that will occur. Thanks :)

Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > Hi. > > Peter Weber wrote: >>> Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users >>> out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all >>> the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that. >>> >> >> Even users with hig

Re: [gentoo-releng] Call for feature requests for 2008.0 - Universal-CD

2008-02-05 Thread Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Hi. Peter Weber wrote: Anyone gave this any thought? There are still a LOT of dial-up users out here. People seem to forget that, especially the website with all the huge pages. My Space comes to mind on that. Even users with high-speed connections want to stay independent and free, re

[gentoo-releng] [OT] Filesystem Realities

2008-02-05 Thread davecode
Alex Howells: > Anyone advising you to deploy > XFS in a production environment without > UPS on 'critical' data is a fool. Who, me? Not like I haven't asked for 'em. Or advised that strawman case. I don't know about "fool," but sometimes even a fool gets lucky...I knew squat about XFS, it was

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Alex Howells wrote: > On 05/02/2008, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If you plan to use XFS, make sure your UPS is working. In my >> experience, it does not like power failures at all. Maybe things have >> changed since tho. >> >> > > It uses very aggressive caching to get decent spe

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta

2008-02-05 Thread Alex Howells
On 05/02/2008, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you plan to use XFS, make sure your UPS is working. In my > experience, it does not like power failures at all. Maybe things have > changed since tho. > It uses very aggressive caching to get decent speed. Take a decent database box with 32GB

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> run ~arch with XFS on a desktop system that doesn't have a UPS >> >> Guilty as charged. Running Debian unstable on XFS for years, through >> dozens of storm blackouts, and zero data loss. Ext3 lost plenty of data >> before we gave up on

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Free-standing Portage / Recent stage3 tarballs / Beta

2008-02-05 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: run ~arch with XFS on a desktop system that doesn't have a UPS Guilty as charged. Running Debian unstable on XFS for years, through dozens of storm blackouts, and zero data loss. Ext3 lost plenty of data before we gave up on it. Have no intention of using ext4, eithe

[gentoo-releng] Re: Welcome to gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org

2008-02-05 Thread Claudio Autiero
Hi all :P