Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > > I am amused in a cynical way at disk manufacturers using decimal values ... > So, the disk manufacturers obviously have marketing motivations. However, IMO the programming community would be well-served to just join basically every oth

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:50 PM Wols Lists wrote: > > btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad > things are likely to happen ... So, USB hosts vary in quality I'm sure, but I've been running USB3 drives on lizardfs for a while now with zero issues. At first I was shu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 8:21 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:50 PM Wols Lists wrote: >> btw, you're scrubbing over USB? Are you running a raid over USB? Bad >> things are likely to happen ... > So, USB hosts vary in quality I'm sure, but I've been running USB3 > drives on lizardfs for a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 8:59 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > > I tried using moosefs with a rpi3B in the > mix and it didn't go well once I started adding data - rpi 4's were not > available when I set it up. Pi2/3s only have USB2 as far as I'm aware, and they stick the ethernet port on that USB bu

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-31 Thread thelma
On 7/31/21 12:32 AM, William Kenworthy wrote: > > On 31/7/21 4:50 am, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 07:08 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On Thu, 2021-07-29 at 20:42 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread antlists
On 31/07/2021 05:58, William Kenworthy wrote: Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual machines/data stores - I get an insane amount o

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 08:12:40AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > Plus it creates other kinds of confusion. Suppose you're measuring > recording densities in KB/mm^2. Under SI prefixes 1KB/mm^2 equals > 1MB/m^2 *Cough* actually, 1 GB/m^2 ;-) -- Grüße | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a > single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online > borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times a day backup rota of individual > machines/data stor

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 8:41 PM Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 08:12:40AM -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman: > > > Plus it creates other kinds of confusion. Suppose you're measuring > > recording densities in KB/mm^2. Under SI prefixes 1KB/mm^2 equals > > 1MB/m^2 > > *Cough* actu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 31/7/21 9:30 pm, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 8:59 AM William Kenworthy wrote: >> I tried using moosefs with a rpi3B in the >> mix and it didn't go well once I started adding data - rpi 4's were not >> available when I set it up. > Pi2/3s only have USB2 as far as I'm aware, a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > >> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a >> single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all the online >> borgbackup repo's I have for a 3 times

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > ... > And thanks to the cache, a new snapshots usually is done very fast. But for > a yet unknown reason, sometimes Borg re-hashes all files, even though I > didn’t touch the cac

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-31 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/8/21 11:36 am, William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/8/21 8:50 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Sat, Jul 31, 2021 at 12:58:29PM +0800 schrieb William Kenworthy: >> >>> Its not raid, just a btrfs single on disk (no partition).  Contains a >>> single borgbackup repo for an offline backup of all t