Re: Default filesystem

2007-04-10 Thread Ismael Luceno
Fix escribió: > On 4/9/07, Ismael Luceno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My system is somewhat deviated, so a normal LFS may take a bit more, >> but the gettys/dm will be up as soon as possible, that's the beauty >> of initng, it does it without any effort :). > > InitNG is great __idea__. Howeve

Re: Default filesystem

2007-04-09 Thread Fix
On 4/9/07, Ismael Luceno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system is somewhat deviated, so a normal LFS may take a bit more, > but the gettys/dm will be up as soon as possible, that's the beauty > of initng, it does it without any effort :). InitNG is great __idea__. However, I know two men at leas

Re: Default filesystem

2007-04-08 Thread Ismael Luceno
Dan Nicholson escribió: > On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a >> year ago, or a new booting scheme... > > This is actually something I want to bring up. Our booting is dog > slow. Maybe it's time to look int

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > TheOldFellow wrote: > >> X start up, I've discovered, is very dependent on how much groping >> it has to do. Removing 'auto' from the mouse protocol, saves 5 >> seconds, for instance on one of my systems. > > Interesting. Especially now that the input device layer in the ke

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
TheOldFellow wrote: > X start up, I've discovered, is very dependent on how much groping it > has to do. Removing 'auto' from the mouse protocol, saves 5 seconds, > for instance on one of my systems. Interesting. I have not yet found out how to stop > it trying all the modes to see which work

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/4/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > X start up, I've discovered, is very dependent on how much groping it > has to do. Removing 'auto' from the mouse protocol, saves 5 seconds, > for instance on one of my systems. I have not yet found out how to stop > it trying all the modes t

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Luca
Luca ha scritto: > I think that it depends on the system you're building, example you could > build LFS on a flash device, on a machine with another os or building on > a supercomputer or something requiring an "advanced" setup. > > I don't know if that's what you mean but I could take the ex

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Luca
Hi Richard. Thanks for the answer. I think that it depends on the system you're building, example you could build LFS on a flash device, on a machine with another os or building on a supercomputer or something requiring an "advanced" setup. In a reply I took the simple example of using a diffe

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread TheOldFellow
Luca wrote: > TheOldFellow ha scritto: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >>> On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a year ago, or a new booting scheme... > > Hi. > > I think, but not sur

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Luca
TheOldFellow ha scritto: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a >>> year ago, or a new booting scheme... >>> Hi. I think, but not sure about, something not handle

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread Luca
TheOldFellow ha scritto: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a >>> year ago, or a new booting scheme... >>> Hi. I think, but not sure about, something not handle

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-04 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a >> year ago, or a new booting scheme... > > This is actually something I want to bring up. Our booting is dog > slow. Maybe it's time to look into m

Re: Reply: RI: Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's say I choose reiserfs; I can't manage it with e2fsprogs, so the base > system > should include reiserfsprogs package to manage filesystem. > > There is no optional added step, but simply a "potential" base package needed > added. >

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I need is something it can't handle, like Udev for several months a > year ago, or a new booting scheme... This is actually something I want to bring up. Our booting is dog slow. Maybe it's time to look into making improvements. We could

Reply: RI: Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<Messaggio originale:> Da: Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inviato:sabato 3 febbraio 2007 18.43 A: LFS Developers Mailinglist Oggetto: Re: Default filesystem Hi. (Sorry but sending mail through ISP page so don't worry about formatting) I'll t

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Having read this and thought about it some more, I guess I'd suggest >> changing the book to build into a directory, then add some chapters on >> moving the built system to a bootable partition - and then making it >> boot

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/3/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having read this and thought about it some more, I guess I'd suggest > changing the book to build into a directory, then add some chapters on > moving the built system to a bootable partition - and then making it > bootable. > > This way we can

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread TheOldFellow
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> So a, possible bad or wrong, idea but why not moving file system tools from >> BLFS >> (as states the name it's beyond lfs) to LFS (supposing a different fs instead >> of ext3) ? > > The problem is that this would introduce optional packa

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/2/07, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Anyway, I am afraid that any attempt to build LFS on any filesystem > other than ext3 is now considered an unforgivable deviation from the > book (reason for such thought: for a long time, reiserfsprogs failed to > build, and xfsprogs page contained a

Re: Reply: Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So a, possible bad or wrong, idea but why not moving file system tools from > BLFS > (as states the name it's beyond lfs) to LFS (supposing a different fs instead > of ext3) ? The problem is that this would introduce optional packages to LFS (which is traditionally sup

Reply: Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<Messaggio originale:> Da: TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Inviato:sabato 3 febbraio 2007 8.45 A: Cc: Oggetto: Re: Default filesystem >I think it's wiki stuff, or hints maybe (if they are not stone dead), >for the moment. If we get s

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-02 Thread TheOldFellow
than those; I found only a bug after testing it for some months, > a temporary disk freeze - minutes - after some working hours) so why not > adding official support for Ext2 (too old and replaced by Ext3), Ext3 > (to be replaced by Ext4), ReiserFS and XFS as possible default filesys

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-02 Thread Luca
Hi Dan. I didn't mean that it is said you *must* or some editor's preference or else I simply mean another thing, here reported some of his words (Alexader) in a private conversation: "Anyway, I am afraid that any attempt to build LFS on any filesystem other than ext3 is now considered an unfo

Re: Default filesystem

2007-02-02 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/2/07, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LFS officially supports Ext3 as default file-system and in BLFS book we > find under File Systems ReiserFS and XFS progs. These filesystems are > judged stable You're actually reading more into this than there is. There is no "officially supported" fil

Default filesystem

2007-02-02 Thread Luca
t for some months, a temporary disk freeze - minutes - after some working hours) so why not adding official support for Ext2 (too old and replaced by Ext3), Ext3 (to be replaced by Ext4), ReiserFS and XFS as possible default filesystem? It should be possible to add experimental support for Reiser