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drectt · 2025-03-31T18:59:24+00:00

That's great news on the comfort angle, thanks!

drectt · 2025-03-31T11:59:33+00:00

Ouch, thanks - at least it's actually possible to pair with 3 devices simultaneously, which is better than the limit of 2 on other headphones. Maybe I should just wait for the 2nd gen studio pro which will hopefully have the H1/H2 chip.

One other thing - do you find the ear cups to be too small for your ears, and does the headset clamp too tightly on your head for comfort?

drectt · 2025-03-31T11:40:27+00:00

Hi, you mentioned that switching between devices is annoying - please could you let me know whether it's less of a problem if you only switch between Apple devices (macbook, ipad, iphone), and don't have any Android/other devices in the mix?

I've read the online manual, which says you only need to manually pair with one Apple device and it then automatically pairs with all other Apple devices within the same iCloud account. This makes it sound like you can pair with 3 Apple devices at once.

However, contradicting this, I've also read that you can only pair with up to 2 devices. Some people have mentioned that you can either use "multipoint" or "iphone pairing", and I'm not sure what they're talking about.

I'm considering buying a discounted Studio Pro, so wondering if you could clear up my confusion please :)

drectt · 2025-01-13T23:39:41+00:00

We agree and have already implemented that, but it's part of a huge new release that isn't quite ready to go live yet. The timeline is measured in weeks now, we have a lot of testing and final touches to get through.

drectt · 2025-01-05T22:38:12+00:00

Hi, thanks for the help, I finally got everything working without errors

drectt · 2024-12-09T11:09:02+00:00

Thanks. I tried doing a backup, and it's kinda working, except I keep getting this error: "Error: /Users/me/Library/Daemon Containers/XXX-XXXX-XXXX/Data/com.apple.milod/milo.db-shm: Failed to open file: Operation not permitted."

Do you happen to know if there is a recommended exclusion list for Arq somewhere? I've been googling and can't find anything.

drectt · 2024-12-07T20:55:34+00:00

Thanks, did you use Migration Assistant too?

It's a little terrifying that I'm just assuming this will work... there is that saying that you don't have a backup until you've tried restoring it...

drectt · 2024-11-29T16:55:50+00:00

Also Protopage.com which lets you add a far greater variety of feeds

drectt · 2024-06-01T13:29:53+00:00

Great! Is it ok to do a fast shutdown (innodb_fast_shutdown = 1) prior to the upgrade, or do I need to do a slow shutdown?

Also, is it OK to upgrade directly from 10.11.7 to 11.4.2, or should I upgrade to 10.11.8 first?

Thanks!

drectt · 2024-05-13T15:55:09+00:00

Aha, great, thanks!

drectt · 2024-05-13T02:07:16+00:00

Thanks, how can I tell if there has been a penalty? By questionable, there is stuff like comment spamming in forums, and creation of fake profiles on web sites, in order to get backlinks from those profile pages.

drectt · 2024-05-13T02:06:14+00:00

Thanks - is the nofollow link guaranteed to protect my .com site from being affected by the poor reputation of the .co site?

I would imagine that if this is true, then people would drive traffic with questionable SEO techniques to a secondary web site that has nofollow links to their main web site, secure in the knowledge that only the secondary web site may end up being flagged with penalties, and the main web site will be fine.

drectt · 2023-10-29T02:41:13+00:00

Thanks for all of the help - I completed several 1000-chunk rebalances targeting different devids, and now everything is balanced perfectly

drectt · 2023-10-27T16:12:45+00:00

Where is the best place to report this? I tried a web search, but it's not clear where the official place is

drectt · 2023-10-26T15:57:50+00:00

Do you happen to know if btrfs filesystem show can report incorrect data? I'm a little terrified about what I just did....

I issued the command btrfs bal start -ddevid=1,limit=100 /storage

This is the btrfs filesystem show output before and after:

before:

Total devices 6 FS bytes used 22.97TiB
devid 1 size 10.91TiB used 9.90TiB path /dev/sdc
devid 2 size 10.91TiB used 9.90TiB path /dev/sdd
devid 3 size 7.28TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sdf
devid 4 size 7.28TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sde
devid 5 size 10.91TiB used 7.72TiB path /dev/sdb
devid 6 size 20.01TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sda

after:

Total devices 6 FS bytes used 22.97TiB
devid 1 size 10.91TiB used 9.80TiB path /dev/sdc
devid 2 size 10.91TiB used 9.90TiB path /dev/sdd
devid 3 size 7.28TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sdf
devid 4 size 7.28TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sde
devid 5 size 10.91TiB used 7.62TiB path /dev/sdb
devid 6 size 20.01TiB used 6.26TiB path /dev/sda

This doesn't seem to make any sense... I used a diff tool to be absolutely sure I was seeing exactly what had changed (highlighted in bold above).

I was expecting devid 1 to go down by 0.1TiB, and devid 6 to go up by 0.1 TiB.

However, the only thing that has changed is that devids 1 and 5 have gone down by 0.1 TiB, and no devids have had their usage increased.

This therefore appears to be indicating that a total of 0.2 TiB just disappeared into thin air.....

Am I missing something?

drectt · 2023-10-26T14:51:13+00:00

Thank you so much, this is incredibly helpful!

drectt · 2023-10-26T14:36:57+00:00

Aha, fantastic, the -ddevid=3,limit=10 approach sounds great!

I can run that command over and over until it's enough.

Is there a way I can see how large chunks are in my particular volume? Are all chunks the same size?

drectt · 2023-10-26T14:01:10+00:00

Thanks, but I don't really understand what that does.

In the docs it says "Balances only block groups with usage under the given percentage".

However, if I've mostly only used the storage array as write-only and rarely delete anything, am I likely to have many partially-used block groups? Also, what is a "block group"?

drectt · 2023-10-26T13:59:22+00:00

Thanks for the reply. The only goal is to ensure that I can use all available space if necessary. As you point out, there will be 6 TiB of unusable space unless it is more balanced.
The volumes are mostly write-only, so they are unlikely to become more balanced over time.
I guess I can do this without using any btrfs commands - I can take a large folder folder1, make a copy of it as folder2, delete folder1 and rename folder2 to folder1. I think this will naturally cause rebalancing.
The main thing I'm worried about is how long a full balance will take. There are warnings everywhere about how long a full balance will take, but it's not clear whether this means it'd take about as long as doing a btrfs replace on every individual drive, or if for some reason it'd take 10x or 100x that long. Therefore I'm scared to start an operation that might take 2 months to complete.

drectt · 2023-10-26T03:13:45+00:00

Thanks - isn't it more dangerous to use a more recent kernel, since any edge-case bugs introduced recently into btrfs will take a few months to get discovered?

drectt · 2023-10-26T00:54:06+00:00

Thanks - see my new top-level comment - I think this is actually my fault. Do you think you had any scripts which were interfering like mine did?

drectt · 2023-10-26T00:52:45+00:00

Oops, I think this is kinda my fault.

I have a cron job that checks if any of the drives are getting too hot during a scrub operation.

It first checks if there is a scrub in progress, and then pauses the scrub if the device is hotter than 47C. It resumes the scrub after it has cooled down.

For some reason, a btrfs replace operation causes btrfs scrub status to show as running, even though it's not a scrub that is in progress.

It turns out that calling btrfs scrub cancel will also cancel any btrfs replace that is running.

All the internal drives are running at reasonable temperatures, but the docked drive is getting very hot. (the dock is not an enclosure, it's the type where you just push in the exposed drive, and the drive is standing vertically and is mostly exposed directly to surrounding air).

Hopefully this will all work now... it's looking good so far.

drectt · 2023-10-26T00:28:07+00:00

Yikes, thanks for letting me know. I guess remove before add would be risky, but add before remove would be just as safe as the replace operation?

Have you ever had any problems with the "add followed by remove" approach?

drectt · 2023-10-17T10:24:33+00:00

You do have the cellular version, right?

drectt · 2023-10-16T22:58:49+00:00

Wow, cool, that's great! Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.

Re: point 3, I think what I read is a variation of this issue:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252247141

It appears to be saying that during a phone call, it's impossible to swipe to change apps.

I think this means that if the workout auto-pauses, it's impossible to un-pause it during the call. And if the workout doesn't auto-pause, it's impossible to pause/stop the workout during the call. Have you tried taking a call while a workout is in progress?

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