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On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: |
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> On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" <zerophnx@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:zerophnx@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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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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> Of course. Pen drives are as such not very reliable, so backups are a must. |
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>> If you're using it on random hardware and want X, you'll have to |
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> include the variety of video cards you might run into (Intel, ATI, |
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> Nvidia) in your USE flags. |
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> Will it work out the box without configuration? |
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>> Also, be wary of the predictable naming for network interfaces |
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> (enp5s0, enp9s2,etc). You might want to disable that feature using |
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> something like "net.ifnames=0" in your bootloader or a udev rule so you |
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> can just set eth0 to DHCP and it will work on most machines. |
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> NetworkManager helps with that, or may be just run dhcpcd. |
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I suspect you will end up duplicating a lot of work that is already done |
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elsewhere by the binary distros. You'll probably also have your hands |
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full just trying to keep up with video hardware as you'll need at least |
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intel, fglrx and nvidia drivers (plus maybe nouveau and radeon). |
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Are you 100% sure you want to go that route? Sounds like a huge amount |
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of work. In your position, I would rather investigate a LiveCD type |
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solution with a persistent fs layer on top and let the distro do all the |
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heavy lifting. |
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Especially as you don't have the target hardware to hand for testing, |
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you can only test by plugging the stick and seeing if it works. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |