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

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 20/01/15 05:10, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, James wrote: >> Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: >> >> I was wondering what my /etc/fstab should look like using uuids, raid 1 and >> btrfs. > > From mine: > /dev/disk/by-uuid/7d9f3772-a39c-408b-9be0-5fa26eec8342

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

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 20/01/15 00:50, James wrote: > Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > >>> Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1 > > Interesting. > I am about to test (reboot) a btrfs, raid one installation. > >> Brilliant, you

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/01/15 22:08, Marc Stuermer wrote: > Am 19.01.2015 um 12:02 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > >> Brilliant, you have hit on the answer! - The ancient 300GB system disk >> was sda at one point and moved to sdb - possibly at the time I changed >> to using UUID's. Ive just resized all the disks and its

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-4.9.x and stack protection ?

2015-01-19 Thread walt
On 01/19/2015 03:27 PM, Michael Cook wrote: > On 01/19/2015 06:09 PM, walt wrote: >> gcc-4.9.2 surprised me by landing on ~amd64 today, and I'm still >> very vague about the status of stack protection on gentoo. >> >> I seem to recall reading (somewhere) that gcc-4.9.x is needed for >> compiling t

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.9.x and stack protection ?

2015-01-19 Thread Michael Cook
On 01/19/2015 06:09 PM, walt wrote: gcc-4.9.2 surprised me by landing on ~amd64 today, and I'm still very vague about the status of stack protection on gentoo. I seem to recall reading (somewhere) that gcc-4.9.x is needed for compiling the kernel with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR_STRONG so I've nev

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.9.x and stack protection ?

2015-01-19 Thread walt
gcc-4.9.2 surprised me by landing on ~amd64 today, and I'm still very vague about the status of stack protection on gentoo. I seem to recall reading (somewhere) that gcc-4.9.x is needed for compiling the kernel with CONFIG_CC_STACK_PROTECTOR_STRONG so I've never tried it until today. Is my recoll

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

2015-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 5:32 PM, James wrote: > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: >> Lots of folks everywhere are saying "no thanks anyway." I'd be >> shocked if embedded was any different. Lots of distros want nothing >> to do with it, and lots of distros are switching over wholeheartedly. >> I

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

2015-01-19 Thread James
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > Lots of folks everywhere are saying "no thanks anyway." I'd be > shocked if embedded was any different. Lots of distros want nothing > to do with it, and lots of distros are switching over wholeheartedly. > I'm not really sure what this has to do with Gentoo

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

2015-01-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:00:52PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote > 3) Individual interested in getting every bit of performance > possible from own hardware. Frankly this was the reason why I > switched to Gentoo from RH about 8 years ago. I just tired to > rebuild each time a significant part of

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

2015-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.01.2015 um 19:03 schrieb James: > I think you drasitcally over_estimate the number of those happy linux > distro users. I think if there was an easy way to perform a few typical > gentoo installs (workstation, mail-server, web server, dns server, > hardended*) then folks would migrate heavil

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

2015-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, James wrote: > Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > I was wondering what my /etc/fstab should look like using uuids, raid 1 and > btrfs. >From mine: /dev/disk/by-uuid/7d9f3772-a39c-408b-9be0-5fa26eec8342 / btrfs noatime,ssd,compre

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

2015-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:04:44 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: >> Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in >> Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for >> doing anything in particular. I find

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

2015-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:03 PM, James 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 folks decide then; as i

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

2015-01-19 Thread James
Andrew Savchenko gentoo.org> writes: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:04:44 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > > Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in > > Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for > > doing anything in particular. I find that its best f

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

2015-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-01-18, Rich Freeman wrote: > Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in > Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for > doing anything in particular. I find that its best feature is that it > is reasonably good at doing just about anythin

[gentoo-user] Re: btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread James
Bill Kenworthy iinet.net.au> writes: > > Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > >> Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1 Interesting. I am about to test (reboot) a btrfs, raid one installation. > Brilliant, you have hit on the answer! - The ancient 300GB syste

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

2015-01-19 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:04:44 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Speak for yourself. :) I did comment on my thoughts in this area in > Donnie's thread. Gentoo (IMHO) tends not to be the best distro for > doing anything in particular. I find that its best feature is that it > is reasonably good at doing

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

2015-01-19 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 01/19/2015 08:33 AM, Thanasis wrote: > > Can you also try > > > > eix-remote update > > > > and let the command finish, and also note what file it downloads (at the > beginning) and from where, please? > > > > > Just ran it; it downloads http://gpo.zugaina.org/eix_cache/eix-cache.tbz2. It ter

[gentoo-user] Re: problem with Adobe flash

2015-01-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 19/01/15 05:11, Philip Webb wrote: Typically, when I try to watch a short movie from a general news site, it stops quickly with an error message : it seems not to download fast enough. I assumed this was a problem with Adobe flash (all versions), but on the Mageia system I also have installed

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

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 12:23 PM, Dale wrote: Thanasis wrote: On 01/19/2015 11:54 AM, Dale wrote: I've ran it twice at least since this thread started. No problems so far. Dale Was it the following command that you run? eix-remote update I run eix-sync which I'm pretty sure runs that too amo

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Marc Stuermer
Am 19.01.2015 um 12:02 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > Brilliant, you have hit on the answer! - The ancient 300GB system disk > was sda at one point and moved to sdb - possibly at the time I changed > to using UUID's. Ive just resized all the disks and its now moved past > 300G for the first time as we

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/01/15 18:45, Marc Stürmer wrote: > Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > >> Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk >> volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? >> Content is mostly VM images. >> >> sdc and sdd are 2TB

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/01/15 17:46, Marc Stürmer wrote: > > Zitat von Bill Kenworthy : > >> Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk >> volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? >> Content is mostly VM images. > > On which kernel version are you? > 3.

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

2015-01-19 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 17.01.2015 um 00:25 schrieb Paul B. Henson: http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least) that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is because we're all old and conservative? Not like those y

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? Content is mostly VM images. sdc and sdd are 2TB WD greens, and sda is a 2TB WD red. Question: was /de

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

2015-01-19 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: > On 01/19/2015 11:54 AM, Dale wrote: > >> >> I've ran it twice at least since this thread started. No problems so >> far. >> >> Dale >> > > Was it the following command that you run? > > eix-remote update > > > I run eix-sync which I'm pretty sure runs that too among other parts

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

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 11:54 AM, Dale wrote: I've ran it twice at least since this thread started. No problems so far. Dale Was it the following command that you run? eix-remote update

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 18.01.2015 09:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My advice: > > Start with groups. If you find you need to have lots of "when" > clauses to make the plays work across more than one distro, and the > whens follow the same format, then you might want to split them into > groups. Make for example a "gent

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

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/19/2015 11:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't use eix-sync, but I tried it just now without arguments and it seemed to work just fine. What was the command you tried, and what was the remote file downloaded?

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

2015-01-19 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2015 10:56:18 Thanasis wrote: >> On 01/17/2015 11:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: >>> On 01/17/2015 02:43 AM, walt wrote: I've never used eix-remote and I'm not sure what it does. Is there a reason you don't use eix-sync instead? >>> The result of eix-

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Marc Stürmer
Zitat von Bill Kenworthy : Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? Content is mostly VM images. On which kernel version are you?

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

2015-01-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 19 January 2015 10:56:18 Thanasis wrote: > On 01/17/2015 11:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: > > On 01/17/2015 02:43 AM, walt wrote: > >> I've never used eix-remote and I'm not sure what it does. Is there a > >> reason you don't use eix-sync instead? > > > > The result of eix-sync is the same, be

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 19 Jan 2015 16:32:53 +0800 schrieb Bill Kenworthy : > Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk > volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? > Content is mostly VM images. > > sdc and sdd are 2TB WD greens, and sda is a 2TB WD red.

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

2015-01-19 Thread Thanasis
On 01/17/2015 11:24 AM, Thanasis wrote: On 01/17/2015 02:43 AM, walt wrote: I've never used eix-remote and I'm not sure what it does. Is there a reason you don't use eix-sync instead? The result of eix-sync is the same, because it calls eix-remote Am I the only one seeing this?

[gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

2015-01-19 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? Content is mostly VM images. sdc and sdd are 2TB WD greens, and sda is a 2TB WD red. rattus backups # btrfs fi sh Label: none uuid: 04d8ff4f-fe19-4530-a