Re: [gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used MSI. I'm shopping for a board, too but for AMD processor and my choices are 1. Gigabyte first 2. Asus next - I used Asus some years ago and still have one dual PIII 933 in service. However, their quality on new and exchange went bad so I stopped using them. I don't know how they are now. I tend to go with Asus first, Gigabyte second. I've had good luck with my Asus boards (starts counting... maybe 6 or 7 in the past few years for various sytems). Boards like the SK8N, SK8V, A7N8X, A8N-VM CSM, A8V (not all of those were Linux systems though). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice
Willie Wong wrote: Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connection. (Of course, it is also essential that it works with Gentoo!) What do people recommend? BYTECC ME-835U2F Takes any size 3.5" drive that you want to install (the 400GB IDEs are a good price/GB right now). All metal construction. Includes it's own PSU inside and takes a standard PC cord. So you don't have to keep track of an external AC/DC converter. Has both Firewire and USB 2 connectors on the back. Has a power switch. Best of all, it has an internal fan to keep the hard drive cool. Takes about 10 minutes to assemble, just be careful not to pinch the 4 HD power wires as you slide the unit back inside the case. The screw mount inside the case passes within a few mm of where the HD power wires tend to bend to. (I've found it very difficult to find units with built-in PSUs and adequate hard drive cooling combined with dual-interface designs.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?
Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? I haven't seen "nettop" mentioned yet. It's more of a traffic flow tool showing the bits/sec and packets/sec in a tree format. Works in a terminal window (all text). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] private files
John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What options are out there? My personal favorite is app-crypt/gnupg Aye, I keep website user info and passwords in text files with the contents encrypted with GNUPG. Each website gets its own text file. The big advantage is that backup is dead easy, and since the files are plain text you could even print them out to hard copy for backups. In addition, the files are only decrypted long enough for me to get at the information (typically to copy-paste a password into a web form). The main trick with GNUPG is to securely store your private key and keyphrase, and make sure that you have backup copies of the private keys in offsite locations. I've also used GNUPG to encrypt backup tar files using a dedicated public key as they get written to a backup device. (Rather CPU intensive.) That way, restoration requires use of the private key to restore the file. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot
Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system. revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean. emerge -autvDN world comes up empty. emerge -a depclean says I don't have to do anything. Out of curiosity, is this the only LVM volume that won't boot? (i.e. do you have other LVM2 volumes?) What was your kernel version before/after the upgrade? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
Jarry wrote: One more thing I'm interested in: what impact does lvm2 have on disk i/o, compared to "common" partitions? Probably lvm2 will make disk operations a little slower, but how much? Or does it cause higher cpu-load too? While I don't know of any benchmarks... the ability to resize partitions easily down the road outweighs any minor performance issues for my needs. I would imagine that there is some slowdown and some CPU load, but nowhere near enough for me to notice (even on an old Celeron 566Mhz CPU). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(rest for /var /tmp /usr /opt /chroot /home) That's how I typically setup my small office servers. I create about 6 LVM volumes during the initial installation. The downside is that it makes recovery more difficult (additional volumes that have to be mounted). I've also done a server where I made the root volume larger (16-24GB) and didn't bother with LVM2 during the initial install. I also have a server where I did something slightly trickier with RAID1/LVM2: hda1+hdc1 -> /dev/md0 /boot (~128MB) hda2+hdc2 -> /dev/md1 (swap) (2GB) hda3+hdc3 -> /dev/md2 / (root) (16GB) hda4 -> /music (rest of disk), non-redundant hdc4 -> /musicbackup (rest of disk, non-redundant) Every few days (whenever I add new music), I update the contents of /musicbackup with what is stored on /music, then unmount /musicbackup again. So, accidental deletions in my /music folder become easy to recover from. And I don't care if my music is offline for a few hours/days before I can swap in a new drive. Is this generaly advisable solution (lvm2 over raid1), or is there some risk in using raid1 together with lvm2 ? The only issue I've heard *rumor* of is that 2.6.14 kernels may not be playing nicely with LVM2. (I'm using 2.6.13 on my servers at the moment.) One of these days, I'll update to 2.6.14 and find out for sure. One more question concerning partition type: If I want to use raid1, I have to set all those 2x4 (hda+hdc) primary partitions as type fd (raid autodetect). Is it not problem later for lvm2 when preparing and creating volume-group? Because lvm-guide says something about setting partition type to 8e (linux lvm), which I can not do, if I want to use raid1... All partitions end up as "fd", because the raid arrays need to be built prior to LVM2 getting a look at them. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak
Qv6 wrote: Thanks. I just looked at the ventrilo site and I agree with you on the licensing issue; not very comfortable with it. Aside from Teamspeak and Ventrilo, I also came across Asernal -> http://arsenalproject.org/ It's open source Good, I'll look at that too. SpeakEasy had a "reflector" module that was supposed to allow for group-chat, but it wasn't explained well. (Most of the other voice packages seemed to be aimed at theSIP/VOIP market rather then group-chat.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak
Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side AFAIK, the only choices for group-based voice-chat are either Ventrillo or TeamSpeak. Currently, TeamSpeak seems to have the more friendly licensing for small groups of individuals who want to stay in touch (and have a central voice chat, i.e. for playing games together). I've used both, and other then the licensing issue, I don't really have a preference. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo
Colin Copley wrote: Hi List, Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo running a webserver, I prefer more speed and less journaling, is there a standard? Probably can't go wrong with ext2 (personally, I'd still go with ext3 because you get faster fscks during bootup, right?). Ext2/ext3 have been around for a long time, there are lots of tools written to work with them, supported in most (all?) linux distros. I'm sure there are good arguments for using Reiser, XFS, JFS, etc, but I haven't gotten comfortable enough about them to make the switch away from ext2/ext3. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Has anyone had any joy getting one of these to work under Gentoo, please? I bought it on the recommendations of users on uk.comp.os.linux, as I was looking for a Linux-compatible card available in the UK, but apparently no-one on that group is using the card under Gentoo. Key things to look for in menuconfig for Rocket133 might be: (D)evice drivers --> ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support --> --> SCSI emulation support --> --> generic/default IDE chipset support --> --> PCI IDE chipset support --> --> Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support Probably the only one that matters is (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366=y): --> --> HPT36X/37X chipset support (turn this ON as BUILT-IN) Yes, the Rocket 133SB (Rocket133SB) HPT302 chip is apparently supported by the HPT366.c file. You can find this by grepping the kernel sources: # cd /usr/src/linux # find . -print | xargs grep -i 'hpt302' # grep -i 'hpt366' .config (snipped from my Nov2005 blog) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
