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--- On Sun, 27/12/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade or start over.. |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Date: Sunday, 27 December, 2009, 22:24 |
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> On Sunday 27 December 2009 21:46:23 |
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> Jon Hardcastle wrote: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > I have a gentoo circa 2008 install that i have pretty |
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> much the bare minimal |
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> > to keep up to date... i now have the problem |
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> that i need to upgrade mdadm, |
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> > lvm and probably a few other bits and pieces. |
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> This machine is used almost |
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> > exclusively as a windows file server. |
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> > I am getting blocks all over the show and lots of |
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> applications needs |
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> > reinstalling/upgradining on a emerge world. i |
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> have also had problems |
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> > getting the kernel to do what it needs to do a i |
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> installed the minimal |
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> > when i started.. |
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> > So i am wondering... it is easier to try and upgrade |
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> it, or as i have 2 |
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> > raid 1 drives as the operating system drives and |
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> the rest of the drives |
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> > are pure data, i can disconnect one and wipe the |
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> other reinstall from |
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> > fresh as a degraded raid 1 and when i know we |
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> are good to go, wipe the |
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> > disconnected drive and add to the array to |
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> resync and go from there? |
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> the mdadm/lvm blocks are easy to fix, just unmerge mdadm |
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> and merge lvm. |
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> Then upgrade portage to latest *masked* version (it's |
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> stable and trouble-free |
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> despite the classification), and most of the remaining |
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> blockers should be |
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> resolved automatically by portage. Depending on what |
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> remains, you may or may |
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> not decide to proceed with an upgrade as opposed to a |
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> reinstall. |
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> But it's only one year back, shouldn't give too much |
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> trouble on a minimalist |
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> system. Off the top of my head, I can only really think of |
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> the monolithic to |
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> split ebuild samba split |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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I absolutely depend on mdadm/lvm (which i believe require in some way devicemapper and udev) and these are the biggest things i am worried about changing. Does anyone have any experience here? I am assuming that unmerging and remerging should be relatively problem free? If i can get these bad boys upto date that is all i really care about... |
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