[SLUG] alsa, jackd, recording radio, Amarok

2007-10-17 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm trying to record from a radio plugged in to the line-in jack on my pc, whilst listening to music files playing on Amarok. To do this, I've started playing with jackd, but whenever I start it up with 'jackd -d alsa' I get errors: "the playback device "hw:0" is already in use. Please stop the app

[SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am in the process of rebuilding my server and I am planning my disk usage. I have 2 drives. Traditionally I would do 4 partitions to make up 4 md's md0 /boot ( ~ 500M - I like have space here) sda1 + sdb1 md1 / (~10G) sda2 + sdb2 md2 swap sda3 + sdb3 md3 LVM PV sda4 + sdb4 from the P

Re: [SLUG] alsa, jackd, recording radio, Amarok

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 10/17/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I use jackd at the same time as something like Amarok? > Don't know about amarok but. - Aqualung (http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/) claims jack support, never used it so I can't vouch for it's quality compared to Amarok (I don't u

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:47:35PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > [ ...] > I have some data that I don't really care if it dies/get lost. I can't do > that > on a lv by lv basis with my original setup. > > I haven't had much experience with lvm mirrors, should I stick with my > original > setup o

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:32:02PM +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:47:35PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > [ ...] > > I have some data that I don't really care if it dies/get lost. I can't do > > that > > on a lv by lv basis with my original setup. > > > > I haven't had

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:08:25AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > but how stable is lvm mirror any one using this in production I dunno. I'm taking the fact that it's standard in major distros as an indication that it's pretty mature and reliable. I could be wrong! Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: [SLUG] raid1 mdadm or lvm mirror's

2007-10-17 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Matthew" == Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 07:08:25AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: >> but how stable is lvm mirror any one using this in production Matthew> I dunno. I'm taking the fact that it's standard in major Matthew> distros as an indicatio