>>
>> It would appear that you need an initrd/initramfs to use this.
>>
>
> Ah! Many thanks. I will live without this shortcut, then, I think.
>
If you, like me, prefere to compile your own kernel, there's still an
easy way to create a initrd for your kernel: with genkernel
I use this command to
> Thank your for answer. I just have one question: What you mean that my
> provider has to delegate rDNS to me? I have the resolv.conf with my own
> nameservers.
>
> Locally it shows as I want, but not on the Internet. What would I need to
> ask to my provider?
You have to set the rdns entries on
> I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve
> this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula,
> tar+ssh...?
rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \
--exclude=/dev/ \
--exclude=/proc/ \
--exclude=/sys/ \
--exclude=/tmp/ \
> I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for a new
> FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to create some device
> files in /dev for udev to work properly, because they were excluded. I think
> it was null and console, but I'm not sure.
You are corre
>> I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for
>> a new FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to
>> create some device files in /dev for udev to work properly, because
>> they were excluded. I think it was null and console, but I'm not sure.
>
> mount
> There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
> level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
> much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember
> where is was. Somewhere like the EFF.
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.
> Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
> fingerprint as yours.
>
> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
> conveys INF bits of identifying information.
>
> I think I broke it. I win? :)
>
Sweet, panopticlick.eff.org got gentoo'd :)
> My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they
> already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't.
Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about
you. Who knows, maybe you lied when you posted a story on facebook where
you told p
> Technically, they did, it was just impossible for an OS to make it
> actually work:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/04/02/9528175.aspx
Quote
> And you certainly don't want to make the user go through this
> training session when they unpack their computer on Christmas
> mo
> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a
> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5.
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - an
> Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office "how long before someone makes a
> pointless, unrelated Windows insult out of my post" pool; I just won $5.
I was using Win3.1 - and was happy with it
I was using Win95 - and was happy with it
I was using WinNT4 - and was happy with it
I was using Win2000 -
Am 05.02.2012 19:23, schrieb Grant:
> I was just going over the Baselayout and OpenRC Migration Guide:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
>
> and I'm not sure how to make sure my /etc/mtab is set up according to
> the instructions:
>
> "Previously, the initial rootfs entry w
> Still, I have no sound.
>
> I have re-emerged ffmpeg but still
>
> mplayer displays
>
> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".
> [vdpau] Error when calling vdp_device_create_x11: 1
> Xlib: extension "XVideo" missing on display ":0".
> [VO_XV] Sorry, Xv not supported by this X11 ve
Am 08.02.2012 19:24, schrieb Joseph:
> I can not seem to open any link in Google search engine. I'm using
> firefox-9.0
> Google search display the result but when I try to open it it doesn't work.
>
> I don't have any plugin's installed
> Proxy is set to "no-proxy"
>
> By 2nd. backup computer
> But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform
> hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters &
> layout, etc.
Some days ago I was using the parted magic live cd [1]. It had a tool
that listed all hardware in a nice fashion. I don't recall it's na
> You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in
> google search.
As I said, I have disabled cookies and javascript for goolge.de (using
cookiemonster an noscript). But as I sometimes use google maps, I allow
javascript on google.com and then use google.com for maps - with c
> just building a new qemu appliance and following the handbook it
> mentions the /proc an tmpfs file systems in fstab, but the stage
> template no longer has these entries - is the handbook out of date and
> openrc handles it? - or did I accidentally delete them? Do I still need
> those entries .
> I know I may be in the minority here but flash is coming no where near
> my computers, nor the ones I support (my mother etc.).
I offer no solution to what about to do in 5 years when there's no more
flash support on linux.
But I'd like to take this opportunity to say: _I hope flash dies
painfu
> man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files.
>
> Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile.
I just ran
# find /usr/lib* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -o | more
an was suprised how much orphans there are, already excluding the python
and perl stuff.
Here's some suprising st
> Here /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64
Now that you mention it: /usr/lib is supposed to be a symlink to
/usr/lib64 on my workstation too (like it is on all my other machines).
But it's not. Seems like something went wrong during installation. Maybe
a bad stage3 image. I created the symlink man
> Dracut is masked on ~amd64. Bugs me, as I'd rather use something like
> that than genkernel (I very much like building my own kernels; it
> helps me keep things lean, and keeps me familiar with the capabilities
> of current and future systems). But now I have to find time to learn
> how to use Ge
> Before going hard(ware) way, I would like to try first
> all possible software solutions. What I tried up to now is
> cpufreqd, CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, and spindown. In addition to that
> I adjusted fan-speeds to a little lower values and turned
> off some unneeded peripherials (in bios).
>
> Is there a
> However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still
> goes
> black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds
> delayed :(
>
> I'm back to functioning vesa mode if I boot with radeon.memset=0, but
> that's
> not really my goal...yet :p
Last time I reinstal
Am 03.04.2012 13:28, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
> On 03/04/12 03:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>> However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still
>>> goes
>>> black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds
>>>
Am 03.04.2012 17:37, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>
>>
>> Am 03.04.2012 13:28, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>>> On 03/04/12 03:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>>>>> However, now that the firmware loading
> Certainly not. The most reasonable way is to maintain your own meta
> package in an overlay. Just copy gnome-*.ebuild there and remove all
> dependencies you don't like.
Sounds like a good idea. I am not to happy with some meta packages
either. I'll give it a try.
> If you use portage-2.2, sets provide an easier way to do this. A set is
> just a list of package atoms, one per line, in a file
> in /etc/portage/sets, say /etc/portage/sets/gnome. Then you just emerge
> @gnome.
Portage Sets look nice, but I'm still on portage 2.1 - haven't tried 2.2
yet, I just
> I just got access to these files today so until this morning I didn't
> even know what format they'd be in.
Can you provide us with a downloadable sample, or are these files private?
Am 02.05.2012 06:58, schrieb Carlos Sura:
> I get the following error:
>
> Internal Server Error
>
> Mismatch between target UID (81) and UID (1000) of file
> "/home/username/public_html/anything/index.php"
Have you tried turning of safe_mode in the php.ini file?
Am 02.05.2012 19:42, schrieb Carlos Sura:
> On 2 May 2012 05:35, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Am 02.05.2012 06:58, schrieb Carlos Sura:
>>> I get the following error:
>>>
>>> Internal Server Error
>>>
>>> Mismat
> You just have to look up on how the change the uid, I don't know, as I
> don't have any experience with mod_suphp
Just looked it up. The directive is suPHP_UserGroup
Am 03.05.2012 18:08, schrieb Paul Hartman:
> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
>> Is anyone else getting a large amount of gentoo-user-related
>> backscatter from a set of mailservers including nikko.homeunix.net?
>> I've gotten eight in the last five minutes or so.
>
> Yes. O
Am 07.05.2012 18:26, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> Am Montag, 7. Mai 2012, 14:41:34 schrieb Alex Schuster:
>> Some while ago, I wrote:
>>
>> [
>> mplayer stutters when I/O is going on, even hangs for seconds when I do a
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=somefile bs=1M
>> ]
>>
>>> Urs Schutz writes:
Ju
> nice idea - but that didn't help in the past. Why should it help now?
>
> The question is - why does disk IO make the mouse jerky and delays keyboard
> input? That is just idiotic.
It was just an idea, but maybe there's something wrong on the hardware
side? Broken cable, hard drive about to di
> Can somebody recommend a tftp server that works?
For my BOOTP server I've been using net-ftp/tftp-hpa for quiet some
time, which works great here.
> But, when I try to install one of the other tftp servers, emerge
> refuses. How to I tell emerge to go ahead and install, for example,
> netkit
>
> Maybe use emerge --force or transfer the ebuild to a local overlay and
> remove the blocking. I never understood why different tftp servers block
> each other. I mean I can install pure-ftpd and proftpd at the time time too.
>
Sorry, I meant --nodeps instead of force. I tried it, and am now
Am 10.05.2012 05:59, schrieb Adam Carter:
>> There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
>> be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
>> use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
>> yet what this is, it seems
Am 10.05.2012 10:20, schrieb Grant:
>> Try appending this into your /etc/conf.d/net
>> >
>> >dns_servers_wlan0=208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220
>> >
>> > with or without quotes and brackets I am not really sure.
>> >
>> >dns_servers_wlan0=( "208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220" )
>> >
>> > Hope th
Am 14.05.2012 14:33, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com:
> I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages. I rebooted
> Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5 from 3.3.4,
> and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail archives had run,
> the encfs
> I updated udev from 171-r5 to 171-r6 and now i get several udevd boot
> message as :
> udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules': No such
> file or directory
> udevd[1389]: can not find '/lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules': No such
> file or directory
> ..
Am 26.05.2012 22:28, schrieb Dale:
> Jarry wrote:
>> On 26-May-12 22:01, Dale wrote:
>>> Jarry wrote:
after updating baselayout from 2.0.3 to 2.1-r1 /run is mounted
as tmpfs. But I can not find any mount-option for controlling
how much memory is (or could be) used for it.
Am 04.06.2012 21:10, schrieb Paul Hartman:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, morlix wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> does anybody of you know how to get the grub2-mkconfig script to
>> correctly detect initramfs and set the kernel parameter "root=" to
>> /dev/ram0 or just don't set the parameter at all.
>
> As UEFI needs a FAT partition /boot/efi/efi,
> can I create it from my previous /boot partition?
I haven't tried it yet - my /boot and /boot/efi are still two seperate
partitions on my sys - but in theory it should work just fine with only
a UEFI partition as the UEFI bootloader just loads the
> I have "fixed" the problem by downgrading polkit and udisks.
> To answer your questions
Thanks, had the same problem. Was just about to leave the house, thought
I'd do a quick reboot first, but instead of a login screen, I got a
blank screen. It's always something when you are invited to a barbe
Am 17.06.2012 23:33, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 17/06/12 22:36, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:52:48AM -0500, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
>>>
In my humble opinion, you should use whatever you actually like. Y
I've been having this problem for a while, but I never bothered to
really look into it, but now, I want to do something about it.
Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are
encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks
rather ugly. Unicode message
Am 18.06.2012 16:03, schrieb Yohan Pereira:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:01:15PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> I've been having this problem for a while, but I never bothered to
>> really look into it, but now, I want to do something about it.
>>
>> T
Am 18.06.2012 16:15, schrieb walt:
> On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are
>> encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks
>> rather ugly. Unicode messages wi
Am 18.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Setup:
>
> Running a basic-ish setup with no X configured.
>
> This is gentoo running as virtual guest on win7 using Virtual Box.
>
> Today I ran eix-sync followed by emerge -vuDp world.
>
> One thing in the output puzzles me:
>
> [ebuild NS
Am 18.06.2012 22:49, schrieb Harry Putnam:
> Michael Hampicke writes:
>
>> Am 18.06.2012 21:57, schrieb Harry Putnam:
>>> Setup:
>>>
>>> Running a basic-ish setup with no X configured.
>>>
>>> This is gentoo running as virtual gues
> and be patient if you don't get an immediate response. (People don't like
> to be pestered =D).
>
Also consider the time difference. When we (the GMT+1 guys) ask
questions most people on this list are sleeping :)
>> from recording from my dvbt-card I have some ts-files (transport
>> stream).
>>
>> To save space AND quality, I want to strip anything from those files,
>> which is not wanted: anything, which is neither audio nor video.
>
> What you've just described is reencoding, even if it's from a TS wi
> I'm looking for "the best" filesystem for a small multi-purpose
> server with a couple of services running (ftp, web, mail, mysql).
> For me very important features are:
>
> Now without trying to start flame-war, my question is:
> which of them could be better for my need?
> More stable, more re
>> It was fast and nice
> Not fast on deletes. On the contrary, it was dead slow.
That's about to change [1] - haven't tested it though
[1]
http://xfs.org/index.php/Improving_Metadata_Performance_By_Reducing_Journal_Overhead
> I was unsure whether rsync would restart where it left off or whether
> it would start over from the beginning. It's one huge file so it would
> be painful if it did the latter. This way I know my risk is at most
> 100MB, or maybe 20MB if I break the original up into smaller pieces.
check out th
>
> Does anyone know what are the USE-flags and CFLAGS used for the current
> stage3?
>
Unpack your stage3 and then
cat /var/db/pkg/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5/{USE,CFLAGS}
amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux mudflap nls nptl openmp userland_GNU
-mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe
Regards
> So after upgrading against the Range header vulnerability, I find that
> apache-2.2.20 seems to litter /etc/apache2 with standard configuration
> files, while I don't remember anything at least in 2.2.1x range doing that.
Same thing happend to me, but it seems this new config files are not
inclu
> Indeed, these files seem completely useless on a Gentoo system. I have
> filed a bug:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382997
I was gonna wait to see what other are saying about this. Then totally
forgot about this thread.
But I'll keep an eye on this bug, thanks for filing.
Am 26.11.2011 16:22, schrieb Michael Mol:
> parallel builds
Sweet, I didn't even know about emerges -j option to do parallel builds.
Thx for sharing, I am sure I'll use this in the feature
Does the mysql user 'phpmyadmin' exist, and does he have access to the
mysql database 'phpmyadmin'? Have you tried connection manually to the
phpmyadmin db?
> mysql -u phpmyadmin -p
> Enter password: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user
> 'phpmyadmin'@'localhost'
The ting about mysql is, that it's not enough to just create a user and
give him a password. you also have to grant this user access to the
database you wish to connect to.
Last thing i
> Configuring source in
> /var/tmp/portage/media-video/ffmpeg-0.7.8/work/ffmpeg-0.7.8 ...
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc is unable to create an executable file.
> If x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc is a cross-compiler, use the
> --enable-cross-compile option.
> Only do this if you know what cross compiling mean
> No nothing crazy:
> CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mtune=i686"
No you're right, that's nothing crazy.
Perhaps you could paste the complete build log of your failed merge to
pastebin[1].
Portage tells you where you can find that log file. The output of %
emerge --info might prove useful too.
[1] http://pas
>> No nothing crazy:
>> CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -mtune=i686"
>
> i686? That's not amd64. You need something 64bit. Just use march=native
> instead of mtune=i686.
Wait, what! I could swear I was reading march=native just a few minutes ago.
mtune=i686 on amd64 just doesn't seem right, but it should co
> # echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=native
> /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/cc1 -E -quiet -v -
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -mtune=i686 -march=x86-64
Sorry, something went wrong while pasting this lines, here are the
correct ones:
# cc -mtune=i686 -E -v - &1 | grep cc1
/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-
Hey there,
I've been having some problems with GDM recently (freeze after reboot,
freeze after suspend) so I thought I'd give lightdm a shot.
So far everything works great, but I cannot set a language for a lightdm
session.
My system locale is set to en_US.utf8 because when working with co
> Did you rebuild all of the xf86 drivers and modules after updating xorg
> from 1.10 to 1.11? I didn't run into a problem until xscreensaver kicked
> in.
Yeah I did, everything is working fine, except playing videos files
using the xv video out and ati-drivers.
But there's already a bugreport on
> As a temporary solution you may set your locale to de_DE.UTF-8 but
> export LC_ALL="en_US" in the shell's rc file.
Well, I can live with that - for now :) Thx
Still hope lightdm will behave like GDM in the future. If you google
around you find some bugs related to "set language" issues, so ther
> Today, I was doing a world update and the screen locked - I still had my
> KDE desktop up, but couldn't open a window to kill any processes or
> anything. So, I held the power button to cause a reboot. The computer
> booted okay and gave me my login screen, but neither the keyboard nor
> the mo
> I am using ati-drivers, xfce4 and also fails when using xdm and not xdm.
>
> Any suggestions please
There's already a bugreport on bugzilla, sadly no solution yet:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391193
A workaround is to tell your video player to use opengl as videoout
instead of
> I just tried to reinstall Gentoo on my laptop(x86) and after chrooting
> into my new install I tried to run env-update but got a command not found.
> I looked in sbin and the command isn't there. I downloaded again the stage
> 3 tarball i686 20111213 from another mirror and I'm still not finding
> I thought the incantation is:
>
> env-update && source /etc/profile
>
> has this changed?
No it hasn't, just looked in the gentoo handbook.
I never can remember what command to run first, so I execute both of
them two times :)
> Restarting of the xserver is not working. All what i can do is a reboot.
>
> I just updated all my xorg-dirvers, but it's a now use.
Are you using ati-drivers (fglrx)? Lately I've been having lots of
troubles with x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2 /
x11-drivers/ati-drivers-11.12 (blank, on boot, b
> May I just unmerge my old gcc ?
> Is it save ?
Yes it's save to unmerge your old gcc.
You could also - using quickpkg - create a binary package of your old
gcc before unmerging (for backup puropses).
> Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of?
# genlop -l | grep openrc
Thu Apr 24 14:05:53 2008 >>> sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2
I've been running baselayout2/openrc oder 2.5 years now without any
problems. Of course this does not mean it will run smoothly on your
gentoo box.
As I recall upgra
> How are you supposed to tell what actual device these things are on.
# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
# ls -al /dev/root
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 21 22:56 /dev/root -> md2
so rootfs is on my /dev/md2 device
> I have a laptop which has an AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 2.2GHz Dual Core
> processor on it and I'd like to know which architecture (handbook and
> livecd) to use.
The Athlon Neo X2 is a x86 processor with amd64 support. So you can
either chose x86 or amd64 (if you'd like to run a 64bit system).
> I don't see any address size but when I cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep size I
> get casche size 256 KB and clflush size 64. The laptop has 4G of memory.
With 4G or more I would go with amd64.
> One is a somewhat older Opteron, the other one a recent Phenom II.
> But the output of 'free -m' differs significantly
> *snip*
> Has anybody an idea where this comes from?
Maybe some of the system's memory is reserved as memory for a onboard
graphics card (on mainboard) which does not have it's
Am 09.07.2012 13:04, schrieb Tanstaafl:
> By 'Genius' type service, I'm referring to Apple's Genius service that
> helps you find new music that you might like based on your current
> likes... ie, you tell it the Artists/songs you like, and it tells you
> things that are similar.
>
> It is a very
> Lately, ever since I installed gnome3 (3.2), a lot of things have gone
> unstable. Gnome crashes a lot and pulseaudio too, on every start (I see a
> segfault by the equalizer module).
I had lots of graphics related problems with gnome3.2 - from render
errors to system freezes. So in a desperate
>> Video-codecs? I haven't seen a video in years that was not playable by 64bit
>> ffmpeg based players but worked with 32bit.
>
>
> Lots of wmv files won't play in 64-bit. That's the only one I have
> trouble with. They play fine in 32-bit Gentoo.
>
Mark, was thinking of you and your videos that
>> And really, as I use a lot of VM's all day long, it doesn't seem
>> overly important any more. It's trivial to just run a Windows VM to
>> play wmv files whereas finding someone in the Linux world who actually
>> cares about supporting and promoting the wmv format seems like a waste
>> of my tim
> So I run 'revdep-rebuild --verbose' just to check what do I have that still
> depends on emul-linux-x86* and I've found:
>
> app-emulation/wine-1.4
> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10
> www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0
> x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-295.59
> games-emulation/zsnes-1.51-r2
> skype
>
For
> Stupid question incoming:
>
> What's the WOW in WOW64?
>
> The more I read it as World of Warcraft the more I see that it doesn't
> actually fit :-)
WOW = Windows-on-Windows
> I have just a (maybe silly) question...
> I saw on some forums that partitionning SSDs could slow down read/write
> access.
> Is it true or simply intox ?
> On my sata HD, i have boot, /, usr and home separated partitions.
> What do you think of it ?
This could happen of the partitions on the SS
Am 22.07.2012 19:46, schrieb Florian Philipp:
> Am 22.07.2012 19:30, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>>
>> On Jul 23, 2012 12:05 AM, "Michael Hampicke" > <mailto:gentoo-u...@hadt.biz>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have just a (maybe silly) question...
>>
Am 30.07.2012 19:14, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 9:36 AM, James wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Amp meters are less than $50 USD. They clamp around the
>>> power cord, or any wires inside the computer you can fit
>>> the "clamp" around.
> What I have on there is videos. When I tried to compress some and test,
> it was basically the same size. I guess videos don't compress to much?
>
No videos don't compress well at all, compressing video files is just a
waste of cpu cycles :)
> When I put this in, I'm going to redo the whole
> As far as I recall the issues are with 64 bit nomultilib only. I think
> I used grub-legacy on amd64 multilib without issues, though I'm not
> sure since I use grub2 since 1.98 came out (without issues, by the way)
You are correct. On a no-multilib 64 bit system you cannot compile
grub:1 - you m
Howdy gentooers,
I am looking for a filesystem that perfomes well for a cache directory.
Here's some data on that dir:
- cache for prescaled images files + metadata files
- nested directory structure ( 20/2022/202231/*files* )
- about 20GB
- 100.000 directories
- about 2 million files
The system
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> You should have a look at xfs.
>
> I used to use ext4 earlier, traversing through /usr/portage used to be
> very slow. When I switched xfs, speed increased drastically.
>
> This might be kind of unrelated, but makes sense.
I guess traversing through directories may be faster with XFS, but in
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> Have you indexed your ext4 partition?
>
> # tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/your_partition
> # e2fsck -D /dev/your_partition
>
Hi, the dir_index is active. I guess that's why delete operations take as
long as they take (index has to be updated every time)
2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder
> On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> > - about 20GB
> > - 100.000 directories
> > - about 2 million files
> >
> > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two
> > 10.000rpm hard drives running
>
> I guess traversing through directories may be faster with XFS, but in my
> experience ext4 perfoms better than XFS in regard to operations (cp, rm) on
> small files.
> I read that there are some tuning options for XFS and small files, but
> never tried it.
>
> But if somone seconds XFS I will
Am 13.08.2012 16:52, schrieb Michael Mol:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hampicke
> wrote:
>
>> Have you indexed your ext4 partition?
>>>
>>> # tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/your_partition
>>> # e2fsck -D /dev/your_partition
>>>
>&g
Am 13.08.2012 19:14, schrieb Florian Philipp:
> Am 13.08.2012 16:52, schrieb Michael Mol:
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hampicke
>> mailto:mgehampi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Have you indexed your ext4 partition?
>>
>>
Am 14.08.2012 16:00, schrieb Florian Philipp:
> Am 13.08.2012 20:18, schrieb Michael Hampicke:
>> Am 13.08.2012 19:14, schrieb Florian Philipp:
>>> Am 13.08.2012 16:52, schrieb Michael Mol:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Michael Hampicke
>>>
Am 14.08.2012 10:21, schrieb Daniel Troeder:
> On 13.08.2012 16:53, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> 2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder > 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should
>> have some kind of DB that holds that information.
>> 3: Well,
Am 14.08.2012 19:21, schrieb Jason Weisberger:
> Sure, but wouldn't compression make write operations slower? And isn't he
> looking for performance?
> On Aug 14, 2012 1:14 PM, "Pandu Poluan" wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2012 11:42 PM, "Helmut Jarausch"
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/14/2012 04:07:39 AM,
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