ext4 doesnt do tiered storage. I could make an LVM and have it pool things into one storage volume but I wanted to learn this. bcachefs is simpler and cleaner, but it’s still young and very volatile. Also, ext4 does have bugs still, even today.

I was just thinking about taking a more recent backup when I ran this update and thought against it. I’m going to have to verify this thing against the old backup somehow tomorrow. :/

I get that, but its a cool new toy to play with, and the fsck code is very effective so long as it doesnt run out of memory.

Here’s the thing. Bcachefs is still under development, and Kent is really careful with his filesystem. This happens to me every now and then if I havent rebooted in a long time or theres a kernel update with filesystem changes it doesn’t like. The trick is to skip the userspace fsck code and pass the -k flag so it uses the kernel fsck code which is much farther along. I’ve never lost anything on this filesystem and its messed up in lots of bizzare ways.

No, the secret service did not screw that up. They told the Trump campaign they could not secure the area and the campaign ignored them. Trump is far dumber than Hitler. Hitler had people protecting him and he respected their work. Trump dismisses anything that mildly annoys or inconveniences him. He absolutely will be shot, we just have no idea when or what country will get credit for the kill.

I’m not surprised but, goddamn dude.

Rich people are just celebrities with hoarding tendencies.

No, that would be manjaro.

The Qualcomm stuff is actually coming along, as is Apple. They’re on pace with pretty much any non-raspberry pi SBC.

u-boot loads off the SD card because there is nowhere else to put it on this board. I want to put alpine there too. Alpine and u-boot can be on the same card but alpine wont finish loading unless it is being loaded from the USB port.

I’m using the R4S, it’s a different model with a different SoC. I know there used to be a weird bug on this board regarding SD cards that was supposedly fixed in 2022 (https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2022/10/28/linux-nanopi-r4s/)

That’s why I’m running alpine. It runs in ram and only writes to the SD card when I run “lbu commit.”

As an experiment, I wrote u-boot to a different blank SD card and put the supposedly bad SD card with alpine on it into an USB card reader and connected that to the nanopi. Sure enough, the nanopi loaded u-boot on the sd card, then loaded alpine just fine off the USB card reader.

The card is fine. It just wont run alpine linux off the built in card reader.

I’m of the opinion that a full rewrite in rust will eventually happen, but they need to be cautious and not risk alienating developers ala windows mobile so right now it’s still done in pieces. I’m also aware that many of the devs who sharpened their teeth on the kernel C code like it as it is, resist all change, and this causes lots of arguments.

Looking at that link, I’m not liking the MPL.

Rewrite the entire kernel exclusively in rust!

-hehehe-

Is there a way I as an american can delete all my posts from my banned accounts?

They consider women pets. They aren’t people to them.

I mean, it’s probably in their best interest to avoid us. We are a terrible country.

Are you aware of how much open source work comes from Russians? Russians != Russian govt.

When testing for permissions, I still giggle over trying to execute “touch this” then being told “can’t touch this”

I use both of these systems daily. They have some issues but are just fine for me. Honestly, they are just opposite extremes and I respect that. They each chose a side.

Whereas windows makes me scream. It’s absolute horseshit that pretends to claim some middle ground that makes no one happy.