Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: > > >> I wouldn't use XFS unless >> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it >> does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I >> had to reinstall from scratch. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nicolas Sebrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for > > > everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with > > > r4+compression. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no chance that this > > > filestem will become popular on many OS platforms. > > > > btrfs is under GPL... > > you can stop right here. Jörg thinks that the GPL is restrictive and the CPPL >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 16:12 +0200 schrieb GMail: > On Monday 24 November 2008 08:28:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not > > bound to the local machine. You could also use iSCSI. On your client you'll get SCSI-device-nodes (/dev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
»Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for > anyone who wants to read them. Speaking about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 11:07:26 Joerg Schilling wrote: > It ZFS was under GPL, it did not appear on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. > > What I expect from a promising new filesystem is that is may be integrated > in a large variety of Platforms. > > Note that I am a supporter of collaboration in OSS and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is > > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't > > license it under GPL. > > > > Jörg > > or dual licence it. But Sun didn't dual licence their ZFS code either so ... The problem with dual licensing is that you cannot e

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
BRM schrieb: I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and the system doesn't

[gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again?

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? On a similar note, what's the justification of having KDE4 in the same tree as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread sebasmagri
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my >> KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options >> other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any > options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? /etc/portage/package.mask

[gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed as I've been docked for so long with a usb mouse. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? /etc/portage/package.m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Zsitvai János
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking, > the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" each time and see the > package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge again, mask it, ad > i

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Zsitvai János wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking, the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" each time and see the package, mask it, emerge again, mask it, emerge agai

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Iain Buchanan schrieb: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't know what I've changed as I've been docked for so lo

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Uwe
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:14:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > The xorg.0.log error is: > SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad can't grab event device, errno=16 > [...] > any suggestions? > > thanks, Am I right, if I'm assuming, you're using HAL? Maybe you could try this workaround

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zsitvai János wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking, >>> the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world" eac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Sebastián Magrí
El mar, 25-11-2008 a las 16:17 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras escribió: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:11PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > >>> KDE3 to KDE4. I neve

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, 15:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Zsitvai János wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not > >> joking, the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Zsitvai János
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > package.mask is a file here, not a directory. You could either tack the output to the end of your package.mask with >>, or rename the current package.mask, mkdir package.mask, and move it in there. Or just copypaste t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any > options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? 1st of all, I'm running 2.2.x versions of portage and n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. Previous > portage was happy with that. The new portage is not. I have dozens of > packages in package.keywords that look like this: > > kde-base/kdelibs in which case portage did exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev > and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics, > you can try to disable it. I hope you don't consider this to be thread hijacking, but can you point me to a simple and high-level (but not exag

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian > layout (with no foolish extra "multimedia" keys) and a PS2 mouse with > two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do > I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. I can't help wondering if that's your problem. You unmasked KDE on your own machine... now in the main tree KDE 3 is no longer masked, but KDE 4 is available (so your machine th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 25, 2008, Stroller wrote: > On 25 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > ... > > I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. > > I can't help wondering if that's your problem. You unmasked KDE on > your own machine... now in the main tree KDE 3 is no longer maske

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread damian
> I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help > configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the > subject line. Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference among ntp and htpdate?

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Arttu V. wrote: On 11/25/08, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zsitvai János wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So you're saying I must spend 1 hour to mask all the stuff? (Not joking, the list is big, I have to do "emerge -av world

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I didn't unmask nor keyword any *KDE4* stuff. Only KDE3. Previous portage was happy with that. The new portage is not. I have dozens of packages in package.keywords that look like this: kde-base/kdelibs in which case

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:44, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). > All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked > into how. > > Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: >> >> >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it >>> does not like power failures at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread j . romildo
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi, > > I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, > etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never > really looked into how. > > Recently I noticed it stopped working but I don't kn

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I wouldn't use XFS unless it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I had to reinstall from scratch. >>> Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it t

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 25. November 2008 16:38:00 schrieb damian: > > I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help > > configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the > > subject line. > > Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference > amo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the > filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously > bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is > also hardly affected by filesystem . And launching programs means > mostly reading files, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread damian
> So yes, there is a difference. With htpdate, you synchronize against a _web_ > server. How do you know it has a stable time source? OTOH, with ntp you > synchronize against a specialized network _time_ server which is usually > equiped with an accurate time souce*), using a protocol that was spec

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: > >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless > >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I was able to recover much of the data with reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, > but some of the files had part of their content replaced with a string > of null bytes. I heard somewhere that reiserfs is infamous for > replacing file conte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a > lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care > about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%. I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the > > filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously > > bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is > > also hardly affecte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread KH
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > I have no expertise to decide on that matter, > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no? > Most people and companies / organisations use M$

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower > > but a lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs > > don't care about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance > > g

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
>> [...] I have no expertise to decide on that matter, >> but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by >> default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop >> usage), no? > > fedora turns on 4k stack - well knowing that it kills xfs. Do you want to > re

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:57:19 Paul Hartman wrote: > I have a similar story, but for me it was JFS instead of XFS. I will > never, ever, ever use JFS for anything again. I had XFS on a file > server RAID box with a failing power supply and it died over and over > and the FS stayed functional,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:37:13 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the > filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously > bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is > also hardly affecte

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:24:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I have no expertise to decide on that matter, > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no? I don't think that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > so use whatever you want, get a nice cheap dlt from ebay and let a > > cronjob write to it. No 'lazy' problem. Very secure. > > I live in Brasil, and due to huge taxes, poor infrastructure and the > currency exchange ratio, comp

[gentoo-user] Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-25 Thread James
Hello, One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of bug 246672. Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to emerge it, I get: Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions' Please check permissions and directories for broken symlinks Obviou

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 20:40:52 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > So yes, there is a difference. With htpdate, you synchronize against a > _web_ server. How do you know it has a stable time source? OTOH, with ntp > you synchronize against a specialized network _time_ server which is > usually equiped wi

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread James
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto gmail.com> writes: > But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust > filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery > utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest > filesystem for a desktop user that only uses 3,8G of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backups. > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian layout (with no foolish extra "multimedia" keys) and a PS2 mouse with two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do I need/want evdev? I should put this in a more spec

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Backups. > > > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? To be fair, he was responding to a parent that asked about backing up 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Backups. > > > > > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? > > To be fair, h

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 25 November 2008, James wrote: > Hello, > > One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of > bug 246672. > > Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to > emerge it, I get: > > Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions' > Please che

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 13:08:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my > KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any > options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? The KDE4 ebuilds need EAPI 2 support in

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-25 Thread Rodolphe Rocca
James wrote: > Hello, > > One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of > bug 246672. > > Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to > emerge it, I get: > > Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions' > Please check permissions and director

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:43:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new > > SSDs. > > Two weeks ago, I did some tests with a SSD (ZFS and UFS) and it is really > promising. That's what Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:24 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: ... > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no? > ... No, for me ext2 = continual lost data issues from even th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I need to investigate this deeper and do a write-up for work. I have > a > FreeBSD-7 deployment system (nothing for OpenSolaris) so I'll use that. Any > comment on ZFS performace/stability on FreeBSD? Up to a year ago, they found a star bug ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Backups. >> >> get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? > You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin. He

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is > still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file > system. > > Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has brought > home to me that YMMV really does apply to filesystems. Your usage, data

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread W.Kenworthy
... > I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I > don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think > that either > A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser > and Linux developers caused people to dislike reiserfs for > non-tech

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is > > still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file > > system. > > > > Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has broug

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 13:08:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? The KDE4 ebuilds need

[gentoo-user] Re: Bug 246672 ATI-DRIVERS

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
James wrote: Hello, One of my (ati) systems has been screwed up a few days now because of bug 246672. Long story short, I have no ati-drivers installed and when I try to emerge it, I get: Cannot write to '/usr/lib32/opengl/ati/extensions' Please check permissions and directories for broken sym

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] synaptic touchpad stopped scrolling!

2008-11-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:14:51PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, I can't live without my touchpad extentions (scrolling, tap to click, etc). All provided somehow by the synaptics driver, but I've never really looked into how. Recently I noticed it stopped working bu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Philip Webb
081126 W.Kenworthy wrote: >> A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, >> but the battle between Hans Reiser and Linux developers >> caused people to dislike reiserfs for non-technical reasons. > A is the answer. Hans Reiser is by all accounts a brilliant, > eccentric but deeply flawed individual. He did

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Dale
Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my >> KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any >> options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? >> > > 1st of al

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-25 Thread Dale
damian wrote: >> I agree. I been using ntp here and it works fine. If you need help >> configuring it, let me know. Off list if needed, just put Gentoo in the >> subject line. >> > Ok, thanks Dale. But I can you tell me if there is any difference > among ntp and htpdate? > > > This is t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> >>> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: >>> >>> >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and fou

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Dale
W.Kenworthy wrote: > ... > >> I have not dived in the Linux developers x Hans Reiser battle, so I >> don't know which side is right and which side is guilty, but think >> that either >> A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, but the battle between Hans Reiser >> and Linux developers caused people to

[gentoo-user] reverse dependencies

2008-11-25 Thread Andrey Vul
How do I get the reverse dependencies of an ebuild? I need to know which packages *explicity* depend on gentoo-headers as I have custom headers which conflict with 2.6.27 mainline. -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a ba

Re: [gentoo-user] reverse dependencies

2008-11-25 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Is this question now asked once a week? What is also annoying is that people do no own research before posting to mailing lists. If you had googled it you would have recognized a few threads _from this list_ discussing this in the not to distant past. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/faq.

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage wants KDE4, I don't

2008-11-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Dale wrote: Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: On November 25, 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I decided to give portage 2.1.6_rc1 a try. Now it wants to upgrade my KDE3 to KDE4. I never unmasked or keyworded any KDE4 stuff. Any options other than removing portage 2.1.6_rc1 again? 1st of all, I