From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPzPb-0006CJ-Ip for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:20:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CB78E0966; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A6CE0966 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:20:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so8330588bwz.26 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:20:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=KtK9EEtag7m5l4zWhpUoRbX0YE+7KDGSdtj1RkTAZxg=; b=RqlDbkhybYVdW5YShdP2DfFCj/vwfFSXnEs8YNp8s/sCD3x7gWw8e4v9Q2/uAEQlWv qUb9JvftSTR+nqoTO1hffLRB+B7lITERdTvzimc+neSrelTO8YiZ8n/VAfODCNJSLri3 m+UagGAJg0SdkPteaQP5VVbLGnBLg0xNCzyi8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=PiynHWwpvm7Cu45PyT7F7xoDTRlscQ2HJhE9/deBuJaJrpzDPqoWbEGwSBYteNXg2Q R9lyxabap+6GDJjxydL6pIfwmvffBThxMR2CCaw6FtDF2ORECNPc5M+CXcrxv/pzeS7u BGShNnFFHDNXVO0zoF3QWvBf+W+gMKd6Zzn10= Received: by 10.204.24.69 with SMTP id u5mr6810901bkb.1.1262182817484; Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:20:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm3899977bwz.3.2009.12.30.06.20.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:20:16 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:20:15 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.8r4; KDE/4.3.85; x86_64; ; ) References: <1262132249.136326.8.camel@centar> <4B3B5FCD.8000502@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4B3B5FCD.8000502@cox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912301520.15770.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9144a5d8-45fa-45ff-a4c2-ce28606784fd X-Archives-Hash: b30d6d2a01a9d813ec0b7f02ab5014f4 On Mittwoch 30 Dezember 2009, Marcus Wanner wrote: > On 12/29/2009 7:17 PM, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:08 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> just think a moment of the tons of bug fixes constantly going into > >> ext4. That > >> crap is not stable. Pre-alpha maybe. > > > > People say this from time to time, yet I have been running ext4 on my > > root directory of my laptop since July 2008. The only problem I've had > > since then is one time it would not mount on boot. I merely had to fsck > > it from a live media an then it was ok (nothing lost or currupted). But > > that was a long time ago when it was still ext4dev. And I've had > > numerous crashes and battery depletions on the laptop without incident. > > So the pre-alpha FUD that some people are spreading is either not true > > or I just happen to be the luckiest ext4 user in the world :-). > > For my two cents, a while back I was on ext4 and was trying to get xorg > working. My problem was that the input drivers were not working (because > they had not been recompiled after an update), so once I ran startx, no > keyboard or mouse input was registered. This meant that every time I > tried something which I thought would fix it, I had to hard reset the > system and look at the logs. The only problem was that the logs had the > wrong contents because they had been "written to" but not actually > flushed to the disk, and it took me about 10 hard resets to figure that > out. Even though I was running ext4, I never lost a thing (except the > logs :p). > > For the curious, I eventually got good logs by running shutdown -h 1 in > one tty right before running startx in the other, and that shutdown the > system correctly. > > Marcus > you could have set up acpid to switch to vt1 when the power button is pressed. This is a nice safeguard against a misbehaving X.