Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 04/05/2015 20:42, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > Greetings gents. > > I may have missed it, but i haven't seen this suggested yet: RAID+LVM. > If you already have a 3TB drive, buy another (or two more) and build a > RAID1 or 5 array on them. Then build your LVM on top of /dev/md0 (or > whatever device

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:23:55AM -0500, Dale wrote > Dale wrote: > > Well, I read replies a few times and I think it is best to just add a > new drive. Heck, I've already had a 3TB drive to fail. Anyway, I also > need to look into some sort of backup system. I used to do this with > DVDs but

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, May 04, 2015 4:36:08 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Monday, May 04, 2015 3:41:54 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > Why is seamonkey the only program (so far for me) that needs "-m32"? > > Would it need "-m64" if it was being cross-compiled on a 32-bit host > > system for 64-bit client? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, May 04, 2015 3:41:54 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > Why is seamonkey the only program (so far for me) that needs "-m32"? > Would it need "-m64" if it was being cross-compiled on a 32-bit host > system for 64-bit client? Is there a wiki that we can contribute this > info to? It has to do wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:29:34AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote > All you need to do is create scripts on the host with the exact > same names and have them execute the compiler that you want with > the options you want (I just have it execute the 64bit compiler with > -m32). Then make sure tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage metadata cache backend: sqlite or not?

2015-05-04 Thread Marc Joliet
Oh wow, I completely forgot about this open thread. In my defense, I had to move out two (or was it three?) days after I started the thread, and didn't have internet again until over a month later. Am Wed, 13 Aug 2014 07:30:01 +0530 schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan : [...] > Having tried this feature,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings gents. I may have missed it, but i haven't seen this suggested yet: RAID+LVM. If you already have a 3TB drive, buy another (or two more) and build a RAID1 or 5 array on them. Then build your LVM on top of /dev/md0 (or whatever device your raid is). Another approach is ZFS with RAID-Z or

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 05:29:34AM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote > The error on the link that you posted looks like cause by pump mode, > this one I'm not so sure. > > It looks like you're not using the cross compiler on the host as > it would not generate 64 bit code. Did you add -m32 to your

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:57 AM, lee wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee wrote: >>> >>> I can't even read them on a working system. >> >> If that's true (which I highly doubt, more probably you don't know how to >> read them), then it's a bug and should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:48 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> >> What >> >> I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to >> >> over ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house fire >> >> etc. >> > >> > You have, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 May 2015 05:40:25 -0500, Dale wrote: > > You only need to upload it once, so it doesn't really matter how long > > it takes. After that you do incremental backups. I use > > app-backup/duplicity which not only takes care of incremental backups > > and communicating with S3, but also enc

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:14 AM, lee wrote: > Marc Joliet writes: > >> Personally, I'm probably going to uninstall syslog-ng, because journalctl is >> *such* a nice way to read logs, so why run something whose output I'll never >> read again? > > If you like it, nobody prevents you from using it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 03:23:48AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> What I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy > >> to over ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house > >> fire etc. > > You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a l

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:48 -0500, Dale wrote: > What I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to over ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house fire etc. >>> You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper th

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 May 2015 03:23:48 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> What > >> I wish, I had a second puter in a outbuilding that I could copy to > >> over ethernet or something. May help in the event of a house fire > >> etc. > > > > You have, it's called Amazon S3 :) It's a lot cheaper than a second > > comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, May 04, 2015 5:29:34 AM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, May 03, 2015 11:59:08 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:57:46PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote > > > > > Some packages do custom preprocessing and other weird things during > > > the build process that ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between "normal distcc" and "distcc with pump"?

2015-05-04 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, May 03, 2015 11:59:08 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 02:57:46PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote > > > Some packages do custom preprocessing and other weird things during > > the build process that cause problems with pump mode since it caches > > copies of the unmodifie

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2015 08:46:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not >>> be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. >> >> RAID is not a backup solution

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> I wasn't suggesting symlinks, just LVs mounted at appropriate points. >>> It rather depends on the spread of Dale's data. If he just needs >>> extra space for his videos, he could get a new drive and mount it at >>> ~/vide

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 May 2015 08:46:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I really do need to set up RAID at least for some stuff that I may not > > be able to get back. Some videos I have are no longer available. > > RAID is not a backup solution. Not only RAID

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 04 May 2015 02:39:10 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I wasn't suggesting symlinks, just LVs mounted at appropriate points. > > It rather depends on the spread of Dale's data. If he just needs > > extra space for his videos, he could get a new drive and mount it at > > ~/videos. > > The bulk of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 08:13:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> An alternative is to create a new volume group on the new disk and >>> mounts PVs at various points in your home directory. That way you get >>> the extra space and much of the flexibility without the risk of a >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-05-04 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > << SNIP >> > > Dale > > > > P. S. > > > Filesystem Size Used AvailUse% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/Home2-Home2 2.7T 1.8T 945G 66% /home > > > Well, I read replies a few times and I think it is best to just add a new drive. He