From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vutransingapore@gmail.com (Tran Ly Vu) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:30:27 +0800 Subject: Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5a737810-7b6b-3859-92a4-c59845088706@gmail.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org HI, I have signed up for the eudyptula challenge to start off. How exactly do i start to contribute to linux community, i.e fix bug, etc Thanks On 4/12/2017 12:00 AM, kernelnewbies-request at kernelnewbies.org wrote: > Send Kernelnewbies mailing list submissions to > kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kernelnewbies-request at kernelnewbies.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kernelnewbies-owner at kernelnewbies.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kernelnewbies digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Welcome to the "Kernelnewbies" mailing list > (juan pedro meri?o) > 2. Re: Welcome to the "Kernelnewbies" mailing list (Lino Sanfilippo) > 3. Btrfs Questions for Personal Data Archive (nick) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 19:10:46 -0500 > From: juan pedro meri?o > Subject: Re: Welcome to the "Kernelnewbies" mailing list > To: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi! > > I have been looking at versions 1,2,3 and 4 of the linux kernel. I would > like to know what are the programs for the kernel development environment. > To test them and add new features. > > Thank you very much! > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 7:05 PM, > wrote: > >> Welcome to the Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org mailing list! Welcome >> to the kernelnewbies mailing list. 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I would >> like to know what are the programs for the kernel development environment. >> To test them and add new features. >> >> Thank you very much! > Please take a look at this site: > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/index.html > > I suggest that you also take a look at the eudyptula challenge: > http://eudyptula-challenge.org/ > > >>> You must know your password to change your options (including changing >>> the password, itself) or to unsubscribe. It is: >>> >>> juanpepe >>> > Did you notice that you have just made your password public to the whole world? > > Regards, > Lino > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:28:31 -0400 > From: nick > Subject: Btrfs Questions for Personal Data Archive > To: kernelnewbies > Message-ID: <7f1cf364-648f-69d2-b859-cd965d5552bd@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Greetings All, > I am assuming this is coming from me it's just going to get no reply. However if someone > who works on btrfs is willing to reply to this I have a few questions. Firstly I have a > lot of personal storage for archiving various things probably around ~37TB filled currently > in external drives and estimate the archive to grow to around ~300 to 400 TB. All of > these numbers are unformatted for people's information. I have been using btrfs but > need to ask a few questions for how to create a central archive best: > > 1.Does the compression algorithms used as according to my knowledge they don't do > it well enough to enable it for non text files? What are the performance disadvantages > from a IO perspective(I can Google this but I want numbers from someone who works > in a data center)? This is primary due to the central archive needing to be used > for many different systems at a time. I assume around 3-4 on average maybe more > including during a rebuild. Some of it is also hit bit rate encodes I have done > for bluray which are around 10-22mbps per second and may need to be watched during > a raid rebuild. GPU processing will be client side so don't worry about that. > > 2. Same as above but for software raid versus hardware raid in btrfs.I am stressing > rebuild time here on a raid 5/6. Probably going to use raid 60 as that gives me > a mirror plus two drives failure for redundancy. > > 3. I have found very little information on this but does the metadata being on a SSD > actually help with performance? Very little information exist off the wiki for this. > I literally goggled for a few hours and found very little even in terms of papers. > > Further more the archive is going to be on external hard drives for a while, as hard > drives are not big enough. If people want more information or have advice on how > to scale this out that would be very helpful. Generally I am looking for information > related to btrfs. > > If anyone replies huge thanks, > Nick > P.S. If anyone tells me to send my questions to the btrfs list I did some stupid things and > was banned from vger so I am just sending it here for now. > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > > End of Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 77, Issue 7 > ******************************************** -- Spending hours typing this email ...just for YOU -The Incredible- and no one else!