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overall I'm quite pleased with genkernel and have relegated much |
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tedium to its functions over time. perhaps it's a worthy mule for |
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more responsibility. |
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I have mirror volumes which have survived almost 8 years with 2nd and |
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third generation drives, motherboard, and architecture (32->64 bit). |
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in those years, the newer revs which don't jump up and bite me in the |
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ass probably go unnoticed.. |
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abstractly speaking, the clearest working example of what breaks is |
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oft-times a recent kernel on a recent install disk. slopping an |
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install disk on a modern hard-drive consumes but a gnat's real-estate. |
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using a symlink foundation does a pretty good job of allowing emerge |
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to over-write the static known-good binaries with dynamics, but |
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occasionally the gcc and/or libc is a repeatable failure and having |
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the ro overlay handy allows wholesale excision of the broken |
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installs, esp on young architectures. |
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for whatever reasons, I pack my cd-rom drive bays with hard drives, |
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and install with a cd-rom hanging off the side of the case tethered |
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by its cables... right about the time its a bootable system the cd- |
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rom comes off and the box is tucked into some crawl-space or other |
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behind desks, shelves, etc. and hopefully forgotten. |
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On May 25, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 14:11 -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: |
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>> I'm very happy with new GUID-based volume mounting and more stable |
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>> raid |
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>> tools, but a CF-based or initrd root available when /lib goes to |
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>> hell is |
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>> an absolute must for supporting fault tolerance. |
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> If you use genkernel to build your kernel, then you will have a usable |
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> initrd with lvm2/evms/dmraid (via --lvm2, --evms, or --dmraid) |
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> capabilities and tools for rescuing your system. |
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> This is only good for filesystem rescue, though. It won't help you if |
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> you emerge a bad copy of binutils or gcc. |
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> -- |
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> Chris Gianelloni |
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> Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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> Games - Developer |
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> Gentoo Linux |
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