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On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my |
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> USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive |
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> lives long. |
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> Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the |
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> traditional ext4/xfs/etc on flash drives. |
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> Also the pen drive will be used on random hardware (which can be a |
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> laptop or a desktop), so what else do I need to consider other than |
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> using genkernel's default configuration (the livecd config, which |
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> enables all modules)? |
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FWIW, I've been F2FS plus encryption with Arch and haven't had any |
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problems. I'd suggest having anything important backed up somewhere else |
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since it's still seen as experimental (I think). |
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If you're using it on random hardware and want X, you'll have to include |
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the variety of video cards you might run into (Intel, ATI, Nvidia) in |
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your USE flags. |
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Also, be wary of the predictable naming for network interfaces (enp5s0, |
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enp9s2,etc). You might want to disable that feature using something like |
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"net.ifnames=0" in your bootloader or a udev rule so you can just set |
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eth0 to DHCP and it will work on most machines. |
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