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On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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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 |
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I realize those problems, and that's why I've stayed away till now. I'm |
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running Fedora currently on the pen drive. |
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But the unmatched flexibility of gentoo is tempting me. |
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For example, 3.13.5,6 have problems with USB 3 storage. I've patched the |
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kernel on my desktop and it's working fine. |
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Such things are against mainstream distros. |
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What other distros are suited for this use case? |
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