Good question. I honestly haven't got a clue.
neidu2
joined 11 months ago
Not THAT unusual, but... I have a Dell R520 server that was leftover/retired from work. I mostly use it for storage due to the amount of disk trays it has. I have all of these disks in a ZFS pool, leaving no actual drives for the OS. However, this was an old VM server, so it has an internal USB 2 port and a ridiculous amount of RAM, so the OS is booted from USB, and I don't use swap.
Boot performance is abysmal (on the rare occasion where I actually need to reboot), but once booted I notice no real downside to having the OS itself on really slow storage. Sure, it's somewhat slow to do os-related stuff such as apt-get, but it's not like I'm in a hurry when doing it. Plus other than updating stuff, the OS storage doesn't see a whole lot of changes/writes.
Now I just need to figure out how to economically attach these 40 additional SAS drives I have. It doesn't have to look good (i.e. fit in the same chassis. Or any chassis at all, for that matter), it just have to work. These additional drives are only 4TB each, but they were free.
Yes. It mostly comes down to two things: Bootloader and partitioning schema.
A properly configured bootloader should include an option for all of your OSes. In most cases, any installed OS should be autodetected an added to the menu. If not, as long as you can boot at least one linux distro, adding any missing ones isn't that hard. I suspect that in your case, the latest OS install didn't account for the missing OS during grub setup.
Partitioning schema isn't hard either, but it can be a bit hard to keep track of the various partitions during install. Just make sure that each OS gets its own partition(s), and that you don't mistakenly overwrite any during install.
Yes, because not many other things can be considered both a symptom and a cure.
BigFlat
In my opinion, with a debian style distro as the example, apt-get should be used for syatemwide stuff. Individual users can go for flatpak.
SO much THIS. The two of them FUCKING DESERVE each other!!!11one
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"I've queued for 30 hours for this album signing. Certainly she will be smitten upon seeing me in this nice fedora I bought just for the occasion".
Yes. It's a simple toggle that can be added to the qyickbar: "airplane mode on/off". And while it's on, you can override it with individual settings, such as turning on bluetooth while everything remains off. Hazzle free and fast.
I use this feature a lot, as I fly very often, and I use bluetooth buds. I have filled my phone to the brim with various media to binge until touchdown. It helps conserve battery, as the radio doesn't have to TX at full power while looking for a signal at FL500 in the middle of the Atlantic
This sort of news is worthy of a repost, imho
Personally I'd just upgrade to RAIDZ2, and add as many disks to that as reasonably practical. To be honest, I fail to see any downsides to using four disks for this other than the storage inefficiency.