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> Such is life when you're running locally-compiled binaries that, depending on your USE flags, have been compiled with a combination of settings that nobody in
by olgeni 14y ago
> Such is life when you're running locally-compiled binaries that, depending on your USE flags, have been compiled with a combination of settings that nobody in the whole world has ever tested before.
I do exactly that on FreeBSD and never lost any raid whatsoever, possibly because the "raid stuff" tends to come together with the rest of the OS. There are probably issues that go beyond local compilation and flags.
- humbledrone 14y agoYeah, the USE flags was just an off-the-cuff example of how one-off a Gentoo system can be. Similar to your story, I ran Gentoo for years without any massive disasters, but there was definitely (for me) a nontrivial amount of regular maintenance. I still thing Gentoo's great, and I'm glad I had a little fling with it, but ultimately I decided that the maintenance overhead was just too high for a workstation.