On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 02:15:02AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > just `grep deleted /proc/*/maps' after upgrading libc sometime ;-)
>
> I have done stuff like that in the past, actually. One thing I noticed was
> that daemons resta
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> just `grep deleted /proc/*/maps' after upgrading libc sometime ;-)
I have done stuff like that in the past, actually. One thing I noticed was
that daemons restarted after an upgrade were started with an open file
descriptor refering
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 01:24:12AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:01:15AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:39:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > for example when you upgrade libc every bash process must be killed
> > > before remounting of /usr i
On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 02:01:15AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:39:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > for example when you upgrade libc every bash process must be killed
> > before remounting of /usr is possible since it mmaps some locale file
> > (IME anyway).
>
> (
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 04:39:49AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> for example when you upgrade libc every bash process must be killed
> before remounting of /usr is possible since it mmaps some locale file
> (IME anyway).
(Almost) everything mmap()s /lib/libc.so.6. That's probably more important
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:18:36PM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote:
> >
> > hmm, i have never had any such problems with daemons. the only time i
> it was copied and pasted from some post on debian-devel =o)))
yes now i remember that discussion, but i don't think it was ever
proved tha
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:37:46AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > > DPkg::Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
> > > > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
> > > > DPkg::RunDirectory "/";
> > >
> > > what does that RunDirectory "/"; do?
> > From what i remeber it forces daemon
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:48:35AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:27:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > > as for making apt to remount rw before and ro after upgrading put this
> > >
> > > DPkg::Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
> > > DPkg::Post-Inv
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 02:27:16AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > as for making apt to remount rw before and ro after upgrading put this
> >
> > DPkg::Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
> > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
> > DPkg::RunDirectory "/";
>
> what does that Run
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:35:03AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> because /var and /tmp have no business being on the root partition.
> they should be seperate partitions (or if you use 2.4 kernels /tmp
> should perhaps be tmpfs. anyone have any docs/info on advantages of
> this?)
ext2 is probabl
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:38:18AM +0200, Just a friendly Jedi Knight wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >
> > you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not
> > something you can really expect from any of the journalling
> > filesystems quite
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:43:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> you are looking for more reliability and stability, that is not
> something you can really expect from any of the journalling
> filesystems quite yet. yes yes some people love to say IWFM, but
> there are plenty of others with horr
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 11:47:45AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for
> > something as mundane as a disk upgrade.
>
> Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> I already have /usr as a separate partition. But how do you teach apt to
> remount it read-write and then read-only again?
> Why make / 64 MB big when making /tmp and /var as a separate partition? Both
> could find place on that partition...
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 01:43, Ethan Benson wrote:
> install both disks and use cpio. i never reinstall the OS for
> something as mundane as a disk upgrade.
Well, I never opened my Pismo but I'd think that there is only one IDE
connector... Anyone have experience with that?
> fixing bugs takes
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:27:49AM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
>
> Okay, I didn't make it clear enough: I have a Pismo with the original 6 gig
> hard drive. Now, having to have both operating systems installed, that is way
> to small for the operations that I do. Thus I need a bigger
On Sunday 13 May 2001 22:18, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Philipp von Weitershausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I installed Debian from the official Potato-CD-Set and distupgraded
> > to woody. I've no idea though how to install Debian on a ReiserFS
> > system on a blank hard drive. I mean, I o
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:08:04PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Nope, reiserfsck does (or rather should do? ;) the same as e2fsck does.
>
> The log replay at mount time just replays the last few transactions, which
> doesn't guarantee consistency of the filesystem.
exactly
> Yep, that's one of
Sven LUTHER wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:07:21PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
but don't buy into reiserfs solely on hype. at least wait for it to
have a fsck that actually works. and no journalling fs does NOT mean
`you never need fsck!' that is a pure unadulterated lie^H^H^Hmyth.
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:07:21PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:49:26PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > looking at the output of 'df', I decided to buy a new hard drive for my
> > Pismo
> > soon. Now, given the size of hard drives today, I
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 04:27:01PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > I have no investment one or the other. What about XFS makes more
> > sense?
>
> it has far greater filesystem/file size abilities then reiser. it
> also appears to be faster in many/most aspects.
Not in it's 1.0 release. XFS 1.0
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 05:49:07PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote:
> "Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > it sounds to me like you want a more reliable filesystem, for this
> > purpose you do NOT want reiserfs yet. i would stick with ext2 which
> > is a very mature, stable and reliable
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it sounds to me like you want a more reliable filesystem, for this
> purpose you do NOT want reiserfs yet. i would stick with ext2 which
> is a very mature, stable and reliable filesystem NOW.
And you get to wait for fsck forever and ever and ever a
On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 09:49:26PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> looking at the output of 'df', I decided to buy a new hard drive for my Pismo
> soon. Now, given the size of hard drives today, It just doesn't seem to be
> wise to use ext2 anymore. I also often read that
"Philipp von Weitershausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I installed Debian from the official Potato-CD-Set and distupgraded
> to woody. I've no idea though how to install Debian on a ReiserFS
> system on a blank hard drive. I mean, I obviously cannot just use
> another set of boot floopies like
Hi there,
looking at the output of 'df', I decided to buy a new hard drive for my Pismo
soon. Now, given the size of hard drives today, It just doesn't seem to be
wise to use ext2 anymore. I also often read that Michel Daenzer, Jason
Stewart, and other people are running their machine with Rei
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