[gentoo-user] eclean-dist error

This isn't much of a problem for me, but eclean-dist is behaving strangely for me. I don't know if it's a bug or if something screwy I'm not seeing with my exclusion file. $ eclean-dist --pretend * Building file list for distfiles cleaning... * Your distfiles directory was already clean. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On Feb 14, 2012 6:00 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:42:56 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Hehhe... sorry, I'm on the road and don't have Gentoo on my > > smartphone :-P > > Not even via SSH? :P > It's a new phone and I forgot the port-knocking sequence to open the ssh port

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:42:56 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Hehhe... sorry, I'm on the road and don't have Gentoo on my > smartphone :-P Not even via SSH? :P -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed you'll get lots of advice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

Joerg Schilling wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory >>> between >>> > them and the fact that star reads names from directories in one big >>> chunk. >>> > >>> >>> Honestly, that's news to me. Which package has star? >> >

[gentoo-user] Raid1 simple workstation

Hello, Well it's been almost a year since I tried to set up a simple raid1 workstation. (I.E. 2 identical drives, boo/root/swap only with Raid 1). So I'm starting over. I found this link: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/Software Is this the best document to follow? (note, I'm going to try t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory > > between > > > them and the fact that star reads names from directories in one big > > chunk. > > > > > > > Honestly, that's news to me. Which package has star? > > eix -e star To help star t

[gentoo-user] Jack, the cat and its tail...

Hi, I am currently trying to "jackify" my system with jackd and pulseaudio. I am also running some kaffeine, therefore the basic kde stuff is installed (as less as possible). I am running openbox and slim... The problem is: Kaffeine produces no sound. Since Kaffeine uses xine I set ~/.kde4/shar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On Feb 13, 2012 11:41 PM, "Nikos Chantziaras" wrote: > > On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" >> > > wrote: >> > Correct, there is however a really fast method using "star -copy". >> > >> > This w

[gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de>> wrote: > Correct, there is however a really fast method using "star -copy". > > This works because there are two decoupled processes, shared memory between > them a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, "Joerg Schilling" < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > > Grant Edwards wrote: > > > On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > > On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > >> > > >> I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> > >> I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > >> i-node order. If this is fed into tar or cpio nearly no seeks are > >> required during copying. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

Am Donnerstag, 9. Februar 2012, 18:33:12 schrieb Daniel D Jones: > I was one of those bitten by the upgrade to KMail back in October. After > spending nearly two days without access to email while trying to get the > upgrade and migration to work, I gave up and pinned KMail to version > 4.4.11.1.

[gentoo-user] Re: RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >> I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in >> i-node order. If this is fed into tar or cpio nearly no seeks are >> required during copying. > > What makes you think the inodes are se

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in > i-node order. If this is fed into tar or cpio nearly no seeks are > required during copying. What makes you think the inodes are sequential on-disk? > But it's correctness for ba

[gentoo-user] RFC : fast copying of a whole directory tree

Hi, when copying a whole directory tree with standard tools, e.g. tar cf - . | ( cd $DEST && tar xf - ) or cpio -p ... the source disk is busy seeking. That's noisy and particularly slow. I've written a small Python program which outputs the file names in i-node order. If this is fed into tar o

Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:50:14 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > I've used the in-tree mythtv for years but lately it wasn't being > updated [2][3] so I switched to the overlay [4] and been happily running > 0.25 with that. > [4] I don't remember which, I have to check. Probably the one mentioned >