[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> The bit where you use a LiveCD


Well, I'll leave the old disk in place for
now and just put ext4 on the new disk as 
/usr/local2. That way I can move from system to 
system and it is just going to house video
files of all sorts. If ext4 messes up,
I have the video archived elsewhere.
Reiser3 has work flawlessly for me, but,
I guess it is time to move on as I prepare
for btrfs, CEPH, postgresql9, and other distributed
technologies.

Trying to download the LiveCD from numerous
places around the net I can't seem to get
more that 100KB/s. The download failed last
night, so I've restarted it. Plenty of disk
space on my end. I ran speed tests to my ISP
and I get 5M(should be 15M) down and 2M (yipee!) up
to a local test server the ISP operates,
 so that's not the  bottleneck. From what I could tell, the net
had(ha) problems last night. Many of the mirror
I tested last night manually, did not respond for
quite a while and the latencies where all over
the place (60 -6000) and packet losses where 30-70%.
I could have been BrightHouse and their (MPLS) 
issues, or elsewhere.....

Any good recommendations on on the Internet
Traffic status? 

The net looks horrible here:

http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm


I sure wish mirrorselect, was somehow more
dynamic, meaning the download could switch
mid-process, to another source, if there was
a 50% or so faster download link available.
You know some sort of state table maintained
on link speeds to my top 12 mirrors close to
my net (fastest throughputs). (urely I dream.....)

 as this download will take 6+ hours (at 120KB/s)...

thanks to all for the suggestions,

James