Re: [gentoo-user] HTPC and Gentoo

2012-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 in

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

2012-02-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
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 or

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

2012-02-13 Thread Michael Orlitzky
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

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

2012-02-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] KMail

2012-02-13 Thread Jens Reinemuth
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.

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

2012-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com 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

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

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-02-13, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/13/12 05:49, Helmut Jarausch wrote: I've written a small Python program which outputs

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

2012-02-13 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de 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,

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

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 13, 2012 11:41 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 13/02/12 18:29, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 13, 2012 11:15 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de mailto:joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Correct, there is however a really fast method using

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

2012-02-13 Thread meino . cramer
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

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

2012-02-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de 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 to

[gentoo-user] Raid1 simple workstation

2012-02-13 Thread James
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

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

2012-02-13 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de 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

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

2012-02-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

2012-02-13 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 14, 2012 6:00 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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

[gentoo-user] eclean-dist error

2012-02-13 Thread »Q«
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.