[gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew Watson
I have read that its "quite useable" now, is anyone running reiser4 ? Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. Im doing a fresh install (moving up to a raid system) how do I go about setting it up for reiser4? Thank

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: emerge rhythmbox

2005-06-24 Thread Jonathan Schaeffer
Hi, I'm affraid I won't be able to answer all your questions... I'm not runnig gnome nor atk... trying emerge -pv sound-juicer It comes whith a lot of dependencies which I don't want to install. So, let's forget sound-juicer for now... The ebuild is media-sound/rhythmbox-0.8.8-r1 and it's a stabl

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 am, Andrew Watson wrote: > Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? > also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. Reiser4 does not presently work with AMD64 architectures, so unless you want to lose your data, don't use it on an AMD

[gentoo-amd64] portage/emerge and rebooting questions

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
Good afternoon gentlemen, I have a few questions regarding portage and/or emerge that I would appreciate some help answering. To update my system I: esync emerge -avDut --newuse world Yesterday I did an esync and a number of packages came up one of which was sudo. I could swea

Re: [gentoo-amd64] portage/emerge and rebooting questions

2005-06-24 Thread Alastair Murray
Tres Melton wrote: > I was reading the minutes of the gcc summit and it seems that the > register allocator is going to get reworked again. Although it will be > quite sometime for any changes to make their way down to us users when > they do is that going to mean a complete rebuild of our

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 16:15 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > On Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 am, Andrew Watson wrote: > > Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? > > also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. > > Reiser4 does not presently work with AMD64 architec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] portage/emerge and rebooting questions

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 00:26 +0100, Alastair Murray wrote: > Well, I'll give a brief answer to this one: This isn't an issue. In the > cases were registers are used to pass variables between function the ABI > defines which registers should be used. Not that registers are always used. > > Basical

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Friday, June 24, 2005 4:32 pm, Tres Melton wrote: > Cool when you can plugin whatever encryption module you > want and scary because if there is a hiccup anywhere your data might > never be recoverable. That quite accurately sums up my concerns regarding the filesystem . :) Do you happen to k

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 16:47 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > Do you happen to know when the filesystem will be reworked to function > correctly on AMD64 systems? Sorry, I don't. > I've been considering an upgrade to a pair of > dual core Opterons, and I'd like to be able to use Reiser4 over In

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Friday, June 24, 2005 5:01 pm, Tres Melton wrote: > mirroring the data on each Opteron This I don't understand. How can you mirror filesystem data on a CPU? The motherboard (for the desktop machine) would likely be one of the Tyan dual Opteron configurations. > Really I'd suggest waiting un

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 17:13 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > On Friday, June 24, 2005 5:01 pm, Tres Melton wrote: > > mirroring the data on each Opteron > > This I don't understand. How can you mirror filesystem data on a CPU? The > motherboard (for the desktop machine) would likely be one of the

[gentoo-amd64] Amarok problems

2005-06-24 Thread The Omniscientist
Hello, amarok used to work alright for me, but out of nowhere, whenever I load it up it hangs. It doesn't crash, but it hangs until I kill the process. It works fine on any other user. Now if I delete the config file for it "~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc it loads fine, asks me the "first-time" stuf

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amarok problems

2005-06-24 Thread Joel Wiramu Pauling
Hey there, I am an Amarok Beta tester, Please take this thread to the amarok devel list. Or join irc.freenode.net #amarok. This is not a gentoo issue. On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:20 +, The Omniscientist wrote: > Hello, amarok used to work alright for me, but out of nowhere, whenever I > load it