Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:09:24AM -0500, Philip Webb wrote > > Total corruptions in 5 years with reiserfs-3.6 > > and NO ups in that environment = zero. > > Same here: I've used Reiserfs since 2003 & never had a problem; Me too . Reiserfs 3 for several years and no lost data. -- Walter Dn

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Bill Longman
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Mick wrote: > > Did you diff the kernel configs to see what's different between the two > OS'? > There was no /proc/config.gz. How do you find it without that? I looked through the proc tree but didn't find anything. I added some printk's to the kernel and I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 19:12 -0600, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:27 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Dale did > > opine thusly: > > > > > > > >>> It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is > >>> maintaining it. If everything

Re: [gentoo-user] New project in perl? {OT}

2011-01-01 Thread Stroller
On 1/1/2011, at 10:34pm, Grant wrote: > ... > I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will > interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the > two projects might be both of them having access to the same database > table. The old project is written in a

Re: [gentoo-user] New project in perl? {OT}

2011-01-01 Thread kashani
On 1/1/2011 2:34 PM, Grant wrote: I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people subscribed to this list. I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the two projects might be both of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 January 2011 23:50:21 Bill Longman wrote: > On 01/01/2011 03:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > Am 2010-12-31 11:59, schrieb Mick: > >> Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware > >> for it? > > > > Yes, that would also have been my next question. >

Re: [gentoo-user] New project in perl? {OT}

2011-01-01 Thread Indexer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/01/2011, at 09:04, Grant wrote: > I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people > subscribed to this list. > > I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will > interface with an old project. The only po

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:26:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, > Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > > Something is messing about with the nVidia module. > > That's how module-rebuild works, it's not broken. It *will* rebuild > everyth

[gentoo-user] New project in perl? {OT}

2011-01-01 Thread Grant
I'm sorry this is OT but I really value the opinion of many people subscribed to this list. I'm starting a new project that is quite straightforward and will interface with an old project. The only point of contact between the two projects might be both of them having access to the same database

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2011-01-01 Thread Grant
>> The only advice I've got is to do things in increments as small as >> possible.  Don't do "big bang" integration.  Make sure there is a >> runnable testable program after the first week of development. Maybe >> it doesn't implement any significant features, but you must have >> something runnabl

Re: [gentoo-user] disk /dev entry

2011-01-01 Thread Stroller
On 1/1/2011, at 9:38pm, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > These are both SATA disks. ... I thought all SATA disks would show up as sd* > and EIDE > disks showed up as hd*. That's weird. In `make menuconfig` what does this part say? Device Drivers ---> < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED)

Re: [gentoo-user] disk /dev entry

2011-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:38 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Daniel D Jones did opine thusly: > This is more of a curiosity question than a problem. I just added a new > diskdrive to my system. It's the same model as one I already have > installed. lshw shows the following for the two dis

[gentoo-user] UPS driver error

2011-01-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a iDowell UPS with a USB connection which I'm trying to configure with Gentoo. This UPS works fine with the default settings in WinXP and apparently with AppleMac boxen which it is marketed for: http://store.apple.com/uk/product/TR423ZM/A This is what it shows in dmesg: usb 3-2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:36 on Saturday 01 January 2011, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: > On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, > > > > walt did opine thusly: > > > So, if you've ever run the NVI

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Bill Longman
I actually am running the latest firmware. I had thought that maybe that was the problem, but I rev'ed it about a month ago and it did not solve it. Am waiting for the Ubuntu 10.10 to finish downloading and give that a whirl. On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2010-

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: 110101 Philip Webb wrote: typically in the very early morning when their doing maintenance: Sorry, it's early in my day: that sb "they're" (red face). That's OK. I got a cell phone too. I do pretty good with text speak. lol Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, there is one scenario that is troublesome: mldonkey temp files. If you don't use mldonkey/amule/$whatever you should be fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Mick
On Friday 31 December 2010 22:11:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > reiser4 is fully atomic. A transactions happens completely or it doesn't. > > Unlike ext4 or btrfs or xfs. > > reiser4 also uses barriers (the others use them too, but), when barriers > are not available for some reason or another,

Re: [gentoo-user] Core i7 M620 power management problem

2011-01-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2010-12-31 11:59, schrieb Mick: > Hmm ... could it be a buggy BIOS? Are you running the latest firmware for it? Yes, that would also have been my next question. Maybe you even *find* a bug in that BIOS right now that should be corrected.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia update problems

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 31 December 2010 21:00:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 31 December 2010, > walt did opine thusly: > > So, if you've ever run the NVIDIA install program manually, you > > probably have two different nvidia.ko files in /lib/modules, and > > the wron

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
110101 Philip Webb wrote: > typically in the very early morning when their doing maintenance: Sorry, it's early in my day: that sb "they're" (red face). -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] []

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2011-01-01 Thread Philip Webb
101231 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 101231 Dale wrote: >> What is a good file system that recovers well from a improper shutdown? > Down here we have Africa power. > Africa power makes post-Katrina power look tame. We get brief power outages here regularly in downtown Toronto, typically in the very ear