Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel, although some argue that it should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton (wiki) information

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:49:40PM -0700, Grant wrote: I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish one of the brighter minds amongst us would put out a skeleton (wiki) information page as

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 09:49:40PM -0700, Grant wrote: I think many folks are interested in upgrading to EXT4 with RAID from an ordinary JBOD workstation(server); or better yet to ZFS on RAID. I wish

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.09.2013 09:47, schrieb Pandu Poluan: Especially with SSDs. One must find out the blocksize used by his/her SSDs. With spinning disks, setting ashift=12 is enough since no spinning disks have sectors larger than 2^12 bytes. With SSDs, one might have to set ashift=13 or even

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel, although

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS out of the kernel,

[gentoo-user] PYTHON_TARGETS issue

2013-09-19 Thread Burak Arslan
Hi, When I try: # emerge -uDNp world, I get this error: !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy =app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher-0.8:= has unmet requirements. - app-accessibility/speech-dispatcher-0.8-r2::gentoo USE=alsa espeak python -ao -flite -nas -pulseaudio -static-libs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-19 3:44 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen@fu- You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from scratch if

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant wrote: Interesting news related to ZFS: http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Main_Page I wonder if this will be added to the kernel at some point in the future? May even be their intention? I think the CDDL license is what's keeping ZFS

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Why do you believe it has forked? This project does not even has a source code repository and the fact that they refer to illumos for sources makes me wonder whether it is open for contributing. Jörg Well, it seemed to me that it either changed

[gentoo-user] Unable to catch kernel crash dump

2013-09-19 Thread Grant
I've been getting a kernel oops for awhile that is worse than ever in 3.11.1. It seems to be related to my XHCI USB port. I followed the instructions here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_Crash_Dumps but /proc/vmcore doesn't exist after I reboot the system after a crash. I did notice that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Grant
You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from scratch if you get it wrong. According to the illumos wiki it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-09-19 3:44 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruinehsen@fu- You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Grant
You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from scratch if you get it wrong. According to the illumos wiki it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Grant
Especially with SSDs. One must find out the blocksize used by his/her SSDs. With spinning disks, setting ashift=12 is enough since no spinning disks have sectors larger than 2^12 bytes. With SSDs, one might have to set ashift=13 or even ashift=14. May I suggest that we should somehow

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: You should definitely determine the right value for ashift on pool creation (it controls the alignment on the medium). It's an option that you afaik can only set on filesystem creation and therefore needs a restart from

[gentoo-user] Kompozer, anyone?

2013-09-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hi list, I used to use Kompozer (part of the Mozilla suite) but time has passed and now the libraries it needs are no longer in portage. That's using the binary. Attempting to build it from source according to these instructions [1] fails too because the script can't find some other libraries.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 19/09/13 at 05:14pm, gevisz wrote: I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to switch them off? Something like:

[gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread gevisz
I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to switch them off? Something like: media-gfx/sane-backends -sane_backends*

[gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!

2013-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there his not a single voice audible. Background sound and everything else is

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 07:58:05PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote: I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to switch them off?

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 17:14:02 +0300, gevisz wrote: I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to switch them off? Yes, switch on

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!

2013-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception: I only /see/ the actors moving their mouths...there

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer, anyone?

2013-09-19 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:32:22PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hi list, I used to use Kompozer (part of the Mozilla suite) but time has passed and now the libraries it needs are no longer in portage. That's using the binary. Attempting to build it from source according to these

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/9/19 gevisz gev...@gmail.com: I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to switch them off? Something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!

2013-09-19 Thread meino . cramer
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de [13-09-19 17:40]: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD: Video-Yes, Audio- But actor can be heard speaking!

2013-09-19 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 09/19/2013 05:36 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 05:08:24PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I've got a mysterious (at least to me ;) effect on system: When playing DVDs with different players (vlc/mplayer) video and audio seem to be ok. With one exception:

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching off a long list of USE flags

2013-09-19 Thread gevisz
2013/9/19 Wang Xuerui idontknw.w...@gmail.com 2013/9/19 gevisz gev...@gmail.com: I would like to build sane-backend only for one specific scanner. However, there are a huge lot of different USE flags for other scanners that are already switched on by default. Is there any easy way to

[gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate packages is the fact that various packages I have

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case. Perhaps, the reason for having duplicate

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to the old one just in case.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer, anyone?

2013-09-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 19 Sep 2013 17:32:16 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Is it not part of the Mozilla suite anymore? Try seamonkey or seamonkey-bin, which is the current incarnation of the suite. Yes, I find that Seamonkey has a Composer component, but it seems not to have a CSS editor like that of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Kompozer, anyone?

2013-09-19 Thread Mick
On Thursday 19 Sep 2013 21:24:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 19 Sep 2013 17:32:16 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Is it not part of the Mozilla suite anymore? Try seamonkey or seamonkey-bin, which is the current incarnation of the suite. Yes, I find that Seamonkey has a Composer component,

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Spo do I need that overlay at all, or just emerge zfs and its module? You do *not* need the overlay. Everything you need is in portage nowadays -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.atwrote: I have to set up a server w/ 8x 1TB in about 2 weeks and consider ZFS as well, at least for data. So root-fs would go onto 2x 1TB hdds with conventional partitioning and something like ext4. 6x 1TB would be available

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

2013-09-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:32 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Spo do I need that overlay at all, or just emerge zfs and its module? You do *not* need the overlay. Everything you need is in portage nowadays -- Douglas J Hunley (doug.hun...@gmail.com) Twitter: @hunleyd

Re: [gentoo-user] re: duplicated packages

2013-09-19 Thread Dale
Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 09/19/2013 10:50 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 19/09/2013 20:58, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, Is having duplicate packages a good or a bad thing in gentoo? I'm clear about having duplicate packages for the kernel. I'm using the more recent one, but hanging on to