Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter

[Wol]

On 07/11/2021 09:47, Dale wrote:
> I learned my lesson on SMR a while back.  I googled and made sure it was
> a CMR drive before I ordered it.  I had to pass by some SMRs to find a
> good deal that was CMR tho.  I don't plan to move data just add the
> drive as extra space.  Adding it to LVM should be easy enough.  Sort of
> thought about switching to BTFRS (sp?) but just not sure.  LVM is
> working well for me at the moment.

You know I push the raid wiki :-) Even if you're not into raid there's 
some good stuff there. I'm very ambivalent on btrfs. It has a lot of 
good features, but it's a trade-off. Do you want a jack-of-all-trades 
filesystem, or do you want separate layers doing separate things. My 
feeling is separate layers.

I've got my hard drives, then dm-integrity (so corruption triggers a 
read-failure), then mirror-raid, then lvm, and finally ext4.

I'm trying to get snapshotting to fire automatically on boot once a 
week, so when I emerge, I can always roll back easily :-) I'm not sure 
whether systemd will do it, but if I have a once-a-week timer which 
activates a fire-once-on-boot service, then that'll be perfect. The 
timer fires on Friday, the snapshot fires when I reboot Saturday morning 
... and then I try not to break my system with a messed-up emerge :-)

Cheers,
Wol