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01:42.23mdzkergoth`bbl: thanks a lot for working with rkrusty on the opie debs
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02:41.22kergoth`bblmdz: not a problem, glad to help out
02:41.46KeyserSozekergoth`bbl: ever see this before: ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_TRY_DLOPEN_SELF
02:42.39kergoth`bbleek
02:42.43kergoth`bblnope, never seen that
02:42.59KeyserSozedarn.
02:43.25KeyserSozei have make version 3.79.1.  what's yours?
02:43.35kergoth`bbl3.80 atm
02:43.42kergoth`bblbut was using 3.79.1 before with no problems
02:44.00KeyserSozeme autoconf is 2.13, and automake is 1.4-p5
02:45.19KeyserSozewhen i type "emerge -s autoconf", it says 2.54 is the latest, and that i have 2.54.  autoconf itself reports 2.13
03:05.37hardwireslow scan TV scares kitties
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03:52.21hardwireaugh
03:52.25hardwireis slashnet dead?
04:13.47KeyserSozekergoth: are you here?
04:14.00KeyserSozei tried building again, and got this error:
04:14.12KeyserSozeconfigure: warning: CC= arm-linux-gcc: invalid host type
04:15.03KeyserSoze/usr/local/arm/2.95.3/bin is in my path, though.
04:15.18kergothyour configure line is wrong
04:15.21kergothpaste it
04:15.45KeyserSozewhere is it?
04:16.18KeyserSozeconfigure: running /bin/sh './configure' --prefix=/usr  '--host' 'arm-linux' '--build' 'i386-linux' '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--disable-ltdl-install' 'CC= arm-linux-gcc' 'CFLAGS=-I/home/gazicm/projects/OZ/buildroot-exported/output/staging/include -march=armv4 -mtune=strongarm1100 -mapcs-32 -fexpensive-optimizations -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -fpermissive' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/gazicm/projects/OZ/buildroot-exported/output/staging/li
04:16.18KeyserSoze-rpath-link,/home/gazicm/projects/OZ/buildroot-exported
04:16.21KeyserSozeis that it?
04:16.33kergothyeah, that configure line isnt right..
04:16.38kergothwhat are you building?
04:16.44kergothi mean, what is the buildroot building
04:16.56KeyserSozei did "make", which i believe does "make world"
04:17.00kergothlook at the 'entered' and 'leaving' messages
04:17.01kergothnonono
04:17.05kergothbuildroot builds a fuckload of packages
04:17.08kergothi need to know which one is failing
04:17.19KeyserSozeoh, okay. sorry, checking now.
04:17.37kergothnp
04:17.39KeyserSozeLeaving directory `/home/gazicm/projects/OZ/buildroot-exported/packages/libtool'
04:17.48KeyserSoze(that was right after the error messages)
04:18.01kergothlibtool is built um
04:18.05kergothbuildroot isnt putting that CC= there
04:18.14kergothwhat distribution are you using?
04:18.16KeyserSozeoh, crap.  that was after "***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_TRY_DLOPEN_SELF"
04:18.29KeyserSozei thought updating make got rid of that, but it's still there a few pages up.
04:18.36kergothwhat distribution?
04:18.40KeyserSozegentoo
04:19.02kergothwell you're running into issues because of the autoconf used
04:19.05kergothdefinately distributionisms
04:19.28kergothnote that def-vars/* facilitates a means of specifying what autoconf/automake to run
04:19.38kergothtype autoconf<tab><tab> in console
04:19.52KeyserSozeautoconf        autoconf-2.13   autoconf-2.53a  autoconf-2.54
04:19.56kergothbingo
04:20.04kergothtype
04:20.07kergothfile `which autoconf`
04:20.18KeyserSoze/usr/bin/autoconf
04:20.22kergothno
04:20.23KeyserSozeoops, sorry
04:20.26kergothfile `which autoconf`
04:20.41KeyserSoze/usr/bin/autoconf: symbolic link to ../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl
04:20.47kergothyeah, thats what i figured
04:20.52kergoththats why your --version reports what it does
04:21.03kergoththat wrapper figures out which version of autoconf to run when it gets called from a build dir
04:21.10kergothcalling it from where your'e at defaults to 2.13
04:21.17KeyserSozeis that good, or bad?
04:21.26kergothgood, its the only sane way to handle uatoconf versioning issues
04:21.37kergothbut whichever autoconf the wrapper is running to build libtool is broken
04:22.04kergothKeyserSoze: cd build/libtool; autoconf --version
04:22.24KeyserSoze-bash: cd: build/libtool: No such file or directory
04:22.24KeyserSozeAutoconf version 2.13
04:22.32KeyserSozewhy would that happen?
04:22.44kergothcd build/libtool*
04:22.49kergothi dont remember the exatt directory name
04:22.52kergothexact, rather
04:23.18KeyserSoze<PROTECTED>
04:23.18KeyserSozeglibc-2.2.4  gzip-1.3.5  hostap-2002-10-12  ipkg-x86  ipktemp  libtool-1.4.3  linux  oz-base  qt-2.3.2
04:23.22KeyserSoze1.4.3?
04:23.25kergothyep
04:23.29kergothcd build/libtool-1.4.3
04:23.31kergothautoconf --version
04:23.44KeyserSozeautoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.54
04:23.44KeyserSozeWritten by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
04:23.44KeyserSozeCopyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
04:23.44KeyserSozeThis is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
04:23.44KeyserSozewarranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
04:23.50kergoththere ya go
04:23.50KeyserSozewow, 2.54.
04:23.54kergothits 2.54 failing
04:24.14kergothhehe, i've dealt with so many stupid build issues..
04:24.30KeyserSozeis it supposed to use 2.54, and my 2.54 is bad?  or is it supposed to use 2.13, and it is using 2.54 incorrectly?
04:24.39kergothwe require 2.5x
04:24.48kergothyou're seeing a failure .. that report an error message, from 2.54
04:25.00kergothnothing it can do could cause that unless theres a legitimate bug in autoconf 2.54
04:25.05kergothuninstall it
04:25.15kergoththe wrapper will fallback to 2.53a
04:25.20kergothwhich may or may not work, but its worth a short
04:25.21kergothshot
04:25.41KeyserSozeokay.  i'll try that.
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04:33.25KeyserSozeremoving 2.54 seemed to take the symlink "autoconf" with it.  hopefully re-emerging 2.53a (which remained when 2.54 was removed, anyway), will put the symlinks back.
04:33.38kergotheh, thats lame
04:33.42kergothk
04:34.27KeyserSozeremoving 2.54 also removed 2.13, but re-emerging 2.53a put 2.13 back in place, and plain "autoconf"
04:34.47kergothah
04:35.01mewyngentoo time
04:35.35mewynkergoth: are you using my server for anything but irc? :)
04:35.44kergothnot usually, not
04:35.45kergothno
04:35.54kergothprobably will soon tho
04:35.57kergothwith this many devices supported
04:36.05kergothI'll need to keep like 12 buildroots around
04:36.18mewyneep
04:36.33mewynthat's gonna take a lot of space
04:36.41kergothyeah, at around a gig and a half a pop
04:36.49mewynhmmm
04:36.51kergothso i want to distribute them some
04:36.53mewynah
04:37.00kergothehhe
04:37.15mewynwhen i get a job
04:37.20mewyni'll have a new machine
04:37.33mewyn3.06, dual mirrored 240G
04:37.36mewyn2G ram
04:38.06mewynit'll be always on, but behind the firewall.  you'll have to hop to it through ssh :)
04:39.06mewynonce i get that, you can keep 50 buildroots on it :)
04:39.31KeyserSozedual mirrored 240GB?
04:39.35KeyserSozethat's a lot of disk
04:39.50mewynnope
04:40.01mewynthat's not where it ends
04:40.22mewyn240G isn't enough
04:40.37mewyni plan on eventually getting a 2TB array going
04:40.54KeyserSozethat's a lot of DVDs and pirated windows software....
04:40.59KeyserSozeor are you using it for something else?
04:41.01KeyserSoze:D
04:41.28mewyni'm ripping my dvds to the 2TB array
04:41.43mewynplus i won't delete anything
04:42.05kergothscsi?
04:42.08kergothor ide?
04:42.13mewynIDE
04:42.18mewynno reason to go scsi
04:42.35chouimatmewyn: speed and freeing the cpu
04:43.10KeyserSoze2GB/(200GB/disc)*(2, for mirroring)=20 hard drives
04:43.15mewynwith a 3.06 w/ht, and a 3ware ide raid controller
04:43.18KeyserSozeoops, s/2gb/2tb
04:43.47kergothif you're going all out, use both parity and mirroring
04:43.52kergothkeep a parity drive as well
04:43.58kergothso 21
04:43.59kergoth:)
04:44.06KeyserSozelol.
04:44.43KeyserSozeyeah, drives are only about $1 a GB, nowadays.  so it'll only be $2100.
04:44.56KeyserSozeoops, mistaken again.  $4200.
04:45.08mewyn2 arrays of 4 320G raid 5
04:45.20mewyn2800 including ide raid controller
04:46.04mewyn8 320G drives
04:46.09KeyserSozehuh?  each array has 4 320GB drives?  there are 320GB drives?
04:46.17mewynnot yet
04:46.24KeyserSozeah, okay.
04:46.30mewyngive it 3 more months
04:46.40mewynmaxtor has the tech to do it
04:47.05kergoth8 drives? thats only 2.5 terabytes. not going mirroring?
04:47.29mewyni wouldn't do raid 1 with that much space
04:47.33kergothwell less, given the parity on each
04:47.33mewyntoo wasteful
04:47.50kergothits not raid 1 when you're doing 5 as well, but i dotn recall the #
04:47.54KeyserSozewhat's 4 drives in raid 5 do?
04:48.19kergothwhat do ya mean by do?
04:48.25kergothits just a striping, parity array
04:48.33kergothso you're striping across 3 drives with the 4th drive for parity
04:48.41mewynin raid 5 you effectivly lose 1 drive in the array.  the number of drives has to be > 3 and <= 32
04:48.53mewyn>= 3
04:49.02kergothyep
04:49.09KeyserSozeis there more redundancy, but the same amount of storage space as a 3-disk raid-5 setup?
04:49.16kergothI have 2 three channel caching scsi raid controllers sitting here
04:49.26mewynand in raid 5 parity is striped across the array
04:49.28kergothKeyserSoze: no, same safety as a 3 disk array, just 1 disk more of space
04:49.37kergothnot exactly
04:49.44kergothyou can choose which do to, in most cases
04:49.52kergotheither to allocate a seperate drive, or to strip it
04:49.57kergoththere are advantages to each
04:50.15kergothat least, you can choose in scsi with a decent controller
04:50.16kergothi dunno about ide
04:50.56mewynwith a raid 5 array, you can lose one drive and still be recoverable
04:51.26KeyserSozeif you have 3 100GB drives in raid 5, you have 200gb of storage, at twice the bandwidth of a single drive, correct?
04:51.42KeyserSozeyou're saying you can add 1 100gb drive, and get 100gb more storage?
04:51.43mewynalmost 3 times the bandwidth
04:51.48kergothum
04:51.54kergothits not 'bandwidth'
04:51.57mewynyes
04:51.58mewyntrue
04:52.09mewynit's speed really
04:52.12mewyntransfer speed
04:52.14KeyserSozeno, it can't be 3 times the bandwidth.  1/3 of the data isn't data you care about, it's parity stuff.
04:52.17kergothbut the performance of the array he mentions depends on whether the parity is striped or not
04:52.44KeyserSozehttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bandwidth
04:52.47kergothand its not striaght up 2* or 3* the performance
04:52.53KeyserSozedef 2: The amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time.
04:52.59kergothit depends on the distribution of hte data
04:53.23kergothKeyserSoze: right. that refers to the capabilities of the channel
04:53.30kergoththe ide or scsi bus is capable of quite a bit more than your drives are actually doing
04:53.37kergotha lot more, inf fact
04:53.40kergoths/inf/in/
04:53.48mewynyah
04:54.22mewynmost drives don't exceede 10-35MB/sec.  the controllers are now up to 150MB/sec with SATA
04:54.39kergothyep. its all hype
04:54.46mewynyup
04:54.48KeyserSozeyeah, ata100 can do 100MB/s, and most hard drives have a peak read speed below 50MB/s from the medium, and the buffer (8MB being the largest available for IDE drives) can probably saturate ATA100.  what does that have to do with raid 5?
04:55.40kergoththe point is, i'm using bandwidth to describe how much data can be put down the channel
04:55.46kergothnot how much actually _is_ being put down the channel
04:56.05kergoththey're quite indepednent, and bandwidth isnt hte way to describe it
04:56.06kergoththe
04:56.09kergothindependent
04:56.26kergoth:) cant type tonight
04:56.31KeyserSozeyou can't put more down the channel than can be written or read from the disk, except for short periods before the cache fills (or empties)
04:56.37kergotheh?
04:56.46kergothyou're assuming those drives are the only ones on the channel in question
04:56.59kergothyou _can_, you just _arent_ due to the way you designed the arary
04:57.02kergoths/arary/array/
04:57.48kergothanyway
04:57.52kergothsounds like a good plan mike
04:57.57kergothI want to throw together a new box myself
04:57.59kergoththis one is aging
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05:03.46KeyserSozeif x is the capacity of a single drive, b is it's bandwidth, and n is the number of identical drives of size x and bandwidth b in a RAID 5 array, what is the useful storage size of the array, and what is it's theoretical maximum bandwidth, assuming that the combined bandwidth from the disks is not limited by the I/O between the disks and the disk controllers?
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05:03.50mewyn`gah
05:03.53mewyn`damn pos
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05:04.17KeyserSozeif x is the capacity of a single drive, b is it's bandwidth, and n is the number of identical drives of size x and bandwidth b in a RAID 5 array, what is the useful storage size of the array, and what is it's theoretical maximum bandwidth, assuming that the combined bandwidth from the disks is not limited by the I/O between the disks and the disk controllers?
05:05.11JasonNJwho cares. Its friday. :)
05:05.22mewyn`storage is x * (n - 1)
05:05.53mewyn`theoretical throughput is n * b
05:06.18mewyn`actually n * b as long as it's <= bus speed
05:06.33KeyserSozeand the useful bandwidth would be 2*b
05:06.34KeyserSozehow can you fit the extra information (parity) for any amount of drives on only one of them?
05:07.03mewyn`raid 4 is parity on one drive, raid 5 is on all
05:07.05KeyserSozeyes, but the "useful" bandwidth would only be 2*b in a 3 disk system, since 1/3 of the information isn't even wanted, it's just overhead.
05:07.15mewyn`that's not necissarily true
05:07.30kergothits not overhead, it wont even go down the communications channel
05:07.32mewyn`and it depends on the action taken and a bunch of other factors
05:07.41mewyn`kergoth is right
05:07.41kergothin most cases anyway
05:07.42KeyserSozeif the size is x*(n-1), then there must be 1*x that isn't cared about
05:08.08mewyn`yes, in raid 5 it is distributed througout the array
05:08.10KeyserSozekergoth: if it doesn't go down the communications channel, then it cannot contribute to "useable bandwidth"
05:08.21kergothbesides which, striping isnt a direct number of drives * perf times individual drive
05:09.40mewyn`KeyserSoze: in read operations, raid 5 /is/ n * drive speed as long as it doesn't max out the bus
05:10.01KeyserSozelook, if you have 3 drives that are each 100gb, then there is 300gb total.  everyone agrees that only 200gb of that is "useful" right?  if each drive can read all it's info in 10s, then it'll take 10s to read everything, but since there are only 200gb the user wants, the bandwidth is 200gb/10s, which is twice 100gb/10s
05:10.22kergothnope
05:10.24mewyn`300gb is useful
05:10.28kergoththe data is triped across three drives
05:10.37KeyserSozeuseful to who?  1/3 of the data is redundant.
05:10.39mewyn`100 is used for pairty
05:10.48mewyn`which is the reason you are using raid 5
05:10.50kergotheven given its not all useful, its still not 2*
05:10.53KeyserSozeyou cannot fit a 300gb file in a 3 disk raid 5 array of 100gb disks.
05:11.09KeyserSozekergoth: i know it's not 2*n, the theoretical maximum is 2*n, though.
05:11.14kergothstriping across three drives means to read a given file, all three drives are reading the data
05:11.32kergotheach one picks up a stripe of the file in question
05:11.47kergothhence for that period of time, its 3*
05:11.51kergothbut over time it wont be
05:12.20KeyserSozeif it take 10seconds to read a 100gb file from 1 disk, it'd take (ignoring overhead) 10s to read a 200gb file from 3 disks.  the bandwidth that the user cares about (the person who owns the data, and wants it back) is twice as much as 1 disk
05:12.20kergothit wont, even not using parity of course
05:13.52kergothyou're throwing numbers out as though the parity data is all on one disk.
05:13.54kergoththast not the case
05:14.03kergothall three drives are reading your actual data, not two
05:14.03KeyserSozeit doesn't matter which disk it's on.
05:14.07kergothyes, it does.
05:14.14kergothif it were only on two, you're only striping across 2 drives
05:14.19KeyserSozethere is only 200gb of actual data to be read, and it can be read in 10s.
05:14.22kergothwhich is by its very nature slower than striping across three
05:14.33kergothregardless of use of parity, in the striped partiy information case
05:14.47kergothstriping across 3 drives is faster than 2. period.
05:15.00kergothand in the distributed parity case, your'e striping across 3 instead of 2
05:15.02kergothits faster
05:15.12kergoththere are benchmarks comparing raid 4 and raid 5 showing this
05:15.14kergothlook it up.
05:16.01KeyserSozehow much data can you fit in a 3 disk raid 5 array of 100gb disks?
05:16.12mdzraid 4 and raid 5 should be about the same for normal reads
05:16.16mdzbut raid 5 will be much faster for writes
05:16.36kergothwell cool, didnt realize
05:16.53mdzthe only difference is where the parity information is stored
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05:17.02mewyngod damnit
05:17.35kergothyes i realize that, but given the read of data, you have 3 drives reading your data instead of two.
05:17.46kergothparity checking slows you down, but it does in both cases
05:18.02mdzyeah, the parity information is only used in degraded mode or during a write
05:18.20KeyserSozekergoth: it is 200gb, right?  and if it takes 10s to read 100gb from 1 drive, how long does it take to get your 200gb from the 3 disk raid array?
05:19.21kergothnot 10s. it would be 10s if only two of the drives were reading that 200gb
05:19.25mewynKeyserSoze: if you have 3 drives in a raid 5 array, and all of them are 30MB/s, you will get just under 90MB/s
05:19.26kergothbut that is not the case.
05:19.32kergoththe data is striped across all three.
05:19.46mewynthat's read speeds
05:19.52KeyserSozemewyn: you will get that from the physical media.  but 1/3 of the data is useless to the owner.
05:20.02kergothyou're not listening
05:20.10kergothas mdz says, the parity data isnt used in most cases
05:20.13mdzKeyserSoze: all 3 drives will be active during a large enough read
05:20.19mdzKeyserSoze: since they all hold data
05:20.21mewynKeyserSoze: on read, you don't touch the parity
05:20.22kergothexactly
05:20.24KeyserSozeit doesn't matter if they are active.
05:20.29kergothhaha
05:20.35mdzKeyserSoze: er, yes it does.  more spindles = higher transfer rate
05:20.39kergothexactly
05:21.01kergothnot to mention striping across three drives means the chance of a head being near whatever data you need is higher, as there are more heads involved
05:21.05kergothpure probability
05:21.18kergoththat'll improve latency, but thats another discussion altogether :)
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05:21.40mdzit really depends on your access pattern
05:21.45kergothgood point
05:21.57mdzraid 3 is sometimes faster for big sequential operations
05:21.58kergothbut striped raid arrays are supreme in random access for that reason
05:22.02kergothyeah
05:22.24mdzraid 5 should be faster than raid 4 for small random reads
05:22.56kergothright, and thats just considering latency
05:23.11mdzI've never actually used raid 3 or 4 in reality, though, I only know the theory
05:23.15kergoth5 will be faster than 4 with regard to bandwidth in general for the reasons we mentioned earlier
05:23.19mewynraid 2, 3 and 4 are pretty much obsolete
05:23.40mdzyeah, it should be faster overall if you can keep all N disks busy
05:23.43KeyserSozeif it takes 1 hour to fill one 100GB disk, how long will it take to fill a 3 disk raid 5 array?  the thing will fill in 1 hour, and it will hold 200GB.
05:23.57kergothKeyserSoze: now we're talkinga bout writes?
05:23.59mdzthat math makes no sense
05:24.03kergothKeyserSoze: writes are a whole different ballgame
05:24.05kergoththat too
05:24.09KeyserSozekergoth: what's the difference?
05:24.20kergothwrites write parity data, slows you down further
05:24.27kergothnot to mention your base flawed logic as mdz says
05:24.32mdzin order to write 200GB to a raid5 array of 3 100GB disks, you are actually writing 300G
05:24.35KeyserSozewhat base flawed logic?
05:24.44KeyserSozemdz: duh
05:24.44mewynwrites are fairly slow with raid 5
05:24.55mewyneach write op needs 2 write and 2 read ops
05:24.58kergoth3 drives reading 200gb is not twice the speed of 1 drive reading 100gb
05:25.03kergothregardless of parity
05:25.08mdzand writing to 2 drives at once
05:25.48mdzbah, this is #openzaurus
05:25.54kergoth:)
05:25.56KeyserSozewhat base flawed logic?
05:25.59mdzfor lots of off-topic fun go to #zaurus
05:26.05mewynKeyserSoze: plus your how long will it take logic is flawed, because too many factors need to be taken into account.   you need to look at transfer rates only.
05:26.10KeyserSozewhat math makes no sense?
05:26.18kergothi just pointed it out. you theorize that reading from 3 drives is twice the speed of reading from two
05:26.24kergothwhich regardless of parity is flawed
05:26.53kergothand as we already pointed out, raid 5 is faster than raid 4, which negates your argument that parity location is irrelevent
05:26.56kergothwhich it isnt.
05:27.03kergothit affects performance, both in the case of latency and bandwidth
05:27.46mdzthat's the whole reason for raid 5
05:28.05kergothexactly. but data loss has the potential to be worse becaues you can lose parity information
05:28.13kergothhehe
05:28.25KeyserSozeare you saying this is wrong:  "if it takes 1 hour to fill one 100GB disk, how long will it take to fill a 3 disk raid 5 array?  the thing will fill in 1 hour, and it will hold 200GB."
05:28.25mdzbedtime
05:28.25mewynhttp://www.raidweb.com/whatis.html
05:28.41mdzKeyserSoze: try it
05:28.44kergothKeyserSoze: yes. thats wrong.
05:28.54KeyserSozekergoth: does it not hold 200gb?
05:28.58mewynKeyserSoze: you really can't judge that way.
05:28.59KeyserSozeor does it not fill in 1 hour?
05:29.00mdzof course it holds 200GB
05:29.03kergothit does hold 200gb
05:29.21mewynbecause drive access has hundreds of factors
05:29.26kergothyou're taking too simplistic a viewpoint, and failing to see the real world influences on the performance
05:29.27KeyserSozewhat's the quickest it could ever fill up in?
05:29.55KeyserSozedude, i'm talking about a theoretical maximum.
05:30.26mewynKeyserSoze: adn we are saying you are simplifying too much to give you a theoretical maximum
05:30.52kergothhis theoretical maxium write is probably closer to reality than his theoretical maximum read that we already proved wrong.
05:31.07KeyserSozeit cannot ever possibly take less time to fill a 3 disk raid array than it does to fill one disk.
05:31.30kergothyes it can, but not int he case of raid 5.
05:31.35kergother
05:31.41kergothno, you're correct
05:31.44kergothheh
05:31.44KeyserSozeno, every disk has to fill up, or it is not full.
05:31.49KeyserSozeokay, good then.
05:31.51kergothright
05:32.23KeyserSozeso, the max write performance for a 3 disk raid 5 array is 2 times that of a single drive.
05:33.04KeyserSozefor the read perfomance to be faster, there has to be less data read than the amount of data written.
05:33.47mewyni'm really sick of arguing this
05:33.48KeyserSozewhat data doesn't need to be read?  and if it isn't read, then why was it written?
05:33.50mewynhttp://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/single.htm
05:33.58mewynread up on it.
05:34.47kergothKeyserSoze: mdz already explained the parity information isnt checked on every read.
05:34.51kergothyeah, fuck it
05:34.55kergothi'll go back to real work also
05:36.02mewynit's not checked on any read
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07:25.47LordVanmy cf reader works here..
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08:06.30LordVanweird.. it complains about links it can't made ..
08:06.37LordVans/made/create/
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08:07.05kergothwhat does?
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08:07.34LordVankergoth: err never mind .. it's bdicty and the packages are a bit dumb ..(every package tries to do the same symlink..)
08:10.20LordVankergoth: you plan to add python packages to qz feed ?
08:12.22LordVanbtw should opie-login work ok?
08:13.33kergothpython's in our buildsystem.
08:13.38kergothpackages will be in the feed when i update it
08:13.44kergothopie-login works fine, but only for root
08:13.51kergothfor the moment anyway
08:14.03LordVannice :)
08:14.06LordVanthanks
08:15.22kergothnp
08:20.50LordVankergoth: i found kinda bug i think..
08:20.50LordVankergoth: when i use ntp to set the time..
08:21.13LordVankergoth: the date in the 'main' tab isn't changed and if i press ok then it saves the old date again..
08:21.38LordVankergoth: i'll try an upgrade..
08:21.40kergothk
08:23.24LordVanis rc2 newest in feed too ?
08:23.33kergoth?
08:23.39kergothunstable is the newest.
08:23.42kergothunstable doesnt have a version.
08:23.44kergothrc2 is testing
08:23.57LordVankergoth: everything up2date ..
08:26.45LordVan64-0 image is nice (when you got 128MB sd ;)
08:39.48LordVanwhy does installing get really slow after a few packages? (to '/') is it a filesystem issue?
08:41.29kergothnot sure
08:44.35LordVani see
08:51.19LordVankergoth: something completely different ..
08:51.39LordVankergoth: do you plan to put non-gpl'd software into (maybe an extra) feed ?
08:52.13kergothsuch as?
08:52.24LordVanBDicty
08:52.27kergothI dont know of any non-GPL Z apps that are free
08:52.30kergothah
08:52.31LordVanis a commercial app that needs a key
08:52.38LordVanyou can use it for free for 30 days ..
08:52.40LordVanas a trial
08:52.45LordVanthen you need to enter registration keys
08:52.54kergothI dont know if i want demo/shareware apps in the feeds
08:52.56kergothI'll think about it
08:53.12LordVankergoth: well imho an extra feed might be nice for things like this
08:53.39LordVancuz the ipkg's of beiks are stupid :)
08:53.46LordVanbtw should i format my SD ext2 ?
08:53.49LordVanor keep vfat?
09:41.11LordVani got a really weird bug..
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09:47.04SoopaKDEdoes antone know where i can get the openzaurus source packages?
09:48.15LordVanSoopaKDE: http://www.openzaurus.org/oz_website/faq/faq?id=84
09:48.34SoopaKDEthanx
09:49.45LordVanSoopaKDE:  there's a nice search in the faq ;)
09:49.58SoopaKDEi have the build root
09:50.09SoopaKDEi was hoping to find the actual app packages
09:52.50LordVanwell search the faq yourself then .. (i don't know ;)
09:52.55LordVanor wait til kergoth answers ;)
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10:10.38LordVan?
10:37.46LordVanweird .. how do i close mooview?
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11:05.36LordVanweird.. my 'hotkeys' are borked..
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11:06.24Pietehey guys
11:06.58Pieteanyone else have problems with spontaneous suspends in rc2?
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18:26.43LordVanis it normal that 'Creating symbolic links for task-opie-applets' takes more than half an hour?(still running)
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19:26.15mark|foodkurre: slicker kurre?
19:32.36kurreexcuse me ?
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19:39.55SoopaKDE-2hello
19:42.19mark|foodkurre: dont worry, you must be another kurre in finland
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19:59.19BiGBiGYLLaMascreen -D
20:04.11kurremark|food: jep, I do know that there exists another fellow here in finland with the same nick ...
20:04.57kurrehas anyone noticed that the aqpkg software doesn't wrap the description lines ?
20:05.27kurreseems quite hard to decide if I should download the package, when you can't read the description
20:37.19SoopaKDE-2can i grab the latest OZ sources from CVS?
20:38.11kurrei think you have to use bitkeeper
20:39.19SoopaKDE-2and how do i get bitkeeper?
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20:44.11_ibz1 sec
20:48.55kergothibot: tell SoopaKDE-2 about bitkeeper
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20:49.34mewyn`kergoth: you gonna need bk installed on zelda?
20:49.46SoopaKDE-2so no debian packages?
20:49.48SoopaKDE-2:(
20:50.33kergothmewyn`: already installed it into my homedir and linked it into $HOME/bin
20:50.37kergothmewyn`: :)
20:51.31mewyn`ah
20:51.34mewyn`ok
20:53.03mewyn`iesh, someone is selling a OTF encryption external hdd.  problem is, it is 40 bit DES
20:53.16kergothyeah saw that
20:53.18kergothheh
20:53.25kergothnothing spectactular, thats for sure
20:53.44mewyn`anyone'd be a fool to use it
20:53.52mewyn`40 bit des can be cracked in minuets
20:54.10kergothheheh
20:54.15kergothand they propose it for banks and shit
20:54.16kergothfucking joke
20:54.51mewyn`yah
20:57.40mewyn`i need to figure out a way to do crypto on my systems
20:58.47SoopaKDE-2do you mean encrypt your hardrive?
20:59.02SoopaKDE-2and all the data/files on it?
20:59.59nodaI'm sure one of the partition types Linux supports (if not in 2.4 then in 2.5 at least) has encryption... no?
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21:03.01mewyn`you can do crypto loop
21:03.19mewyn`i would selectivally encrypt
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21:06.29nodaHell, just encrypt ~
21:06.35nodaWhy bother with the rest?
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22:15.15midwayhi all
22:16.40midwayi saw in the unstable changelog something about new sounddrivers giving dsp for the buzzer. How to test this?
22:29.28_ibzdoes /bin/sh have to link to busybox? i *think* when i link /bin/sh to bash, it fscks up the boot sequence...
22:31.59_ibzyep, it does.
22:32.15_ibzwhat's the correct way to use bash instead of ash?
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22:46.56kergothmidway: you wait for rc3
22:49.27midwayok ok
22:49.37midway:-)
22:50.15kergoth_ibz: change your shell in passwd
22:56.23midwaycu all
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23:11.28_ibzkergoth: thanx
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23:19.11_ibzwhere are launcher settings saved? does the launchersettings application save it anywhere where it can be reset to after a flash?
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