[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data > redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited > to DVDs. No, it is not. > It would be great fo find a general data redundancy tool. emerge dvdisaster and see if it sui

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-12-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data >> redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited >> to DVDs. It w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-30 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Troeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > > You can buy so called "archival grade" DVD-Rs that should work for 10-20 > > y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and since I don't take new photos every week,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and >> to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and >> since I don't take new photos every week, this solution is fine. >> > > A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Troeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: >> > As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and >> > to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread KH
Daniel Troeder schrieb: > Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > >> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp: > Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > [...] > > As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-27 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > >> Sounds like you want ZFS. >> On Solaris. >> On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS. >> > > No can do :-) > > But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-based > data

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > On 25 Nov 2008, at 21:35, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their > > new SSDs. > > The reason is that I'm getting sick and tired of having to explain and > > justify why the laws o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Stroller
On 25 Nov 2008, at 21:15, Joerg Schilling wrote: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Backups. get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Essential-External-Drive/dp/B000W9RNOA Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-26 Thread Stroller
On 25 Nov 2008, at 21:35, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new SSDs. The reason is that I'm getting sick and tired of having to explain and justify why the laws of physics prevent my girlfriend from being able to backup her 5T bank

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Backups. >> >> get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? > You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin. He

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I need to investigate this deeper and do a write-up for work. I have > a > FreeBSD-7 deployment system (nothing for OpenSolaris) so I'll use that. Any > comment on ZFS performace/stability on FreeBSD? Up to a year ago, they found a star bug ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:43:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new > > SSDs. > > Two weeks ago, I did some tests with a SSD (ZFS and UFS) and it is really > promising. That's what Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote: > > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Backups. > > > > > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? > > To be fair, h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:15:27 Joerg Schilling wrote: > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Backups. > > > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. > > Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? To be fair, he was responding to a parent that asked about backing up 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Backups. > > get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically. Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks? Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED](uni) [EMAIL PROTECT

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread James
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto gmail.com> writes: > But anyway, I know I must make backups, but I still want a robust > filesystem with good software support (such as data recovery > utilities). Could you give me your suggestion for the safest > filesystem for a desktop user that only uses 3,8G of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a rule of thumb: of you like to widely spread an implementation don't > > license it under GPL. > > > > Jörg > > or dual licence it. But Sun didn't dual licence their ZFS code either so ... The problem with dual licensing is that you cannot e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 25 November 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is > > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
»Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, no one reading it would learn anything more than they could have > by googling a little while. All the arguments about whether copyleft is > more or less freedomish than non-copyleft are already out there for > anyone who wants to read them. Speaking about

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:41:51 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Montag 24 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41