rleigh

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781.
by rleigh 9y ago
We lost an entire openstack host due to an xfs glitch last year. It needed rebuilding from scratch.
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by rleigh 9y ago
You shouldn't have to do these steps. Manual balancing is a workaround for a critical flaw in the implementation. In my last major use of Btrfs, whole archive rebuilds of Debian, it would take less than 48 hours to completely unbalan
783.
by rleigh 9y ago
Even when it gets resolved, it's far from being the only major problem with Btrfs. It's merely the current high profile one.
784.
by rleigh 9y ago
It's not about the filesystem being "unreliable". It's about having the package manager's state checkpointed so that it can recover and resume if there is e.g. power loss or any other form of interruption at any po
785.
by rleigh 9y ago
Forking implies inheriting the design, including all its flaws. You can hack around with the codebase all you like, but if you can't fix the design issues, because it would be breaking interoperability, you're a bit limited in wh
786.
by rleigh 9y ago
You also have to factor in the speed of a resilver and account for the chance of a failure during this at risk window. A mirror can resilver much faster, and it doesn't significantly affect the vdev performance while doing so. A RAIDZ
787.
by rleigh 9y ago
If you think I'm arguing in favour of the status quo, you're greatly mistaken.
788.
by rleigh 9y ago
Why so late? Because changes of this scale need phasing in over a long period. You can't replace the billions of capital investment in vehicles, petrol stations, fuel storage facilities and distribution networks overnight. Our econo
789.
by rleigh 9y ago
On the contrary, it's quite true. I'm a little disturbed by how readily people ascribe nefarious intent to assertions regarding things they have not experienced themselves. You might not have experienced problems, but that does
790.
by rleigh 9y ago
First system (NAS) upgraded flawlessly with `freebsd-update` and I'll see how it fares over the next week before upgrading the rest at home and work. Many thanks to all the FreeBSD crew for all their hard work.
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by rleigh 9y ago
ZFS on Linux is quite inferior; there's a lot of missing functionality and some not so nice bugs. You also can't run ZFS on root without manual installation (I've done this). ZFS on FreeBSD has been flawless for me. ZFS on
792.
by rleigh 9y ago
Used appropriately, a formal process provides structure to the workflows within an organisation. Everyone knows the process, and it provides a framework and expectations for everyone to work within. In organisations without any process, i
793.
by rleigh 9y ago
The article doesn't mention enabling unicode output. \pset linestyle unicode and other related formatting options. Some examples here: http://postgres.cz/wiki/Pretty_borders_in_psql http:/&#
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by rleigh 9y ago
I added CMake support to libtiff last year. Haven't checked if the ports tree uses it yet.
795.
by rleigh 9y ago
Proprietary stuff comes and goes. These are merely the latest in a long line of proprietary APIs. They were not so "little" in their time as well. This seems to come and go in cycles; maybe the new generation of developers will
796.
by rleigh 9y ago
This is exactly why I've moved (and am in the continuing process of moving) more and more stuff over to BSD. Standards matter. Compliance with POSIX and other common standards and conventions are what made the success of Linux possib
797.
by rleigh 9y ago
Well, there's always "git filter-branch". Not that I'd want to run it on such a mega-repository; it takes long enough running it on an average one with a decade of history.
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by rleigh 9y ago
This is quite subjective. Sugar and salt make things "taste better" if you already have a certain expectation that that's how food "should" taste. That's not the case if you don't have that expectation.
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by rleigh 10y ago
I'm in the market for a new machine. The surface hardware looks decent. But I'm unwilling to accept Windows 10 in its current form. So I'll not be a customer until I get treated properly on the privacy and updates front. N
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by rleigh 10y ago
Not when the wood is coming from non-renewable sources. I've read much is sourced from the US, and is not from quickly-growing softwood but long established slow-growing hardwood which burns better in power plants. When the end goal
801.
by rleigh 10y ago
I think part of what's missing here is libraries to render and convert SVG to other formats. It's no good having a feature in Inkscape which no other renderer yet implements. But if it was implemented in a library, which Inksc
802.
by rleigh 10y ago
I stopped using it entirely a few years back. It got to be an unhealthy obsession which I realised was making me quite unhappy. While I read Hacker News and some technical subreddits, I don't think these are entirely benign, but they
803.
by rleigh 10y ago
The plots would have benefitted from a log scale on the y axis, or both axes. The behaviour at the low end can't be clearly visualised since it's squished to the baseline by the exponential behaviour for high x values.
804.
by rleigh 10y ago
Well, there was the iLamp ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 ). Terrible for expansion, but I do like the aesthetic of this one.
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by rleigh 10y ago
I sincerely hope not! As a last resort, maybe. But Macs and MacOS X are hardly the only option when it comes to developing in a Unix-like environment. They aren't even the best choice if that's what you care about (much of the
806.
by rleigh 10y ago
10 years ago, serious academic computational groups were buying Mac Pros because the specs were top notch in terms of the max RAM and CPU speeds compared with the equivalent PC mainboards. They got dated and were also surpassed in a few ye
807.
by rleigh 10y ago
There are no new mac pros, just old and very old. (Mostly joking, but there's little justification for a "current" outdated mac pro with the competition offering a much better machine for a vastly lower price. At work, we we
808.
by rleigh 10y ago
How long would smartphones be able to preserve knowledge? When you can no longer get clean power to charge them, they will cease to function. When they break, there will be no means to repair them. And most critical knowledge isn't
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by rleigh 10y ago
It's added at a constant rate to the liquid entering the filter, so it builds up at a constant rate. However, this can be varied depending upon the filter backpressure. If the particulate load is high, you need to dose at a higher ra
810.
by rleigh 10y ago
Not at industrial scale for fine plastic particulates. It's OK for continuous removal of denser coarse particles > 1mm but wouldn't be good for separating plastics with approximately neutral density since it wouldn't sepa

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