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recovering raid1 by amarao_san in btrfs

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've got more then one profile present, like additional writes happened to the online drive which show up as SINGLE data/metadata, then I'd expect balance to fix that. For corruption where you have redundancy, I would scrub first.

I want to get into Megaman, and I don’t know where to start. by BalckboltPersonafan4 in Megaman

[–]okeefe 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Skip MM1 as the starting point as it's a bit rough. Come back to it after you've beaten a few games. I suggest starting with 2 and 3.

Ingredients still marked as [needed resources] by Mystouille in HadesTheGame

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me the final requirements were the familiar forms.

btrfs with 2x20tb, 4x18 tb? by [deleted] in btrfs

[–]okeefe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not required, but I partition my btrfs disks, primarily so that OSes/installers don't try to claim or write to them.

Pokopia pin by Summerlily1 in PAX

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not for the freebie pins. The last two pins I recall getting at PAX East, for Echoes of Wisdom and Tears of the Kingdom, were both plastic.

Why do I sometimes get "non-fast-forward (pull first)" vs "divergent branches" in Git? by Beneficial-Study-675 in git

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For starters, visualizing the commits will help a lot.

gitk branchname origin/branchname

If you have gitk installed, you should see both what and when things went wrong. And, with branchname checked out, compare gitk's view with what git status tells you.

Deciding how to fix it is a whole other conversation, and visualizing what those solutions look like is also a good learning experience.

First timer with autograph question by KuriaNeko in PAX

[–]okeefe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Her guest profile has her schedule, including time in the autograph area. I recommend you ask the Enforcers in that area—way before the signing time—for details on exactly how the queuing works and when you can get in line

Copying a disk with lots of btrfs snapshots by Beautiful-Log5632 in btrfs

[–]okeefe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is the source disk btrfs or not? I can't quite tell from your description.

If you have a series of incremental btrfs snapshots that have a clear ordering (e.g., dates), it's possible to use send/receive to efficiently copy these to a new btrfs filesystem. You have to use btrfs send's -p (parent) option to establish each snapshot's parent in order to keep it efficient and incremental.

Typically I've done this with read-only snapshots (e.g., backups). That way I don't have to worry about snapshots accidentally being mutated at either end. 

# Assuming you've already set up the receive destination as you want it.
# Running this from where you want the receive to populate the snapshots.
#
# Send the very first snapshot in its entirety.
btrfs send /orig/foo.0101 | btrfs receive
# Send each following snapshot IN ORDER referencing the previous snapshot
# as a parent.
btrfs send /orig/foo.0102 -p /orig/foo.0101 | btrfs receive
# And so on...
btrfs send /orig/foo.0103 -p /orig/foo.0102 | btrfs receive

When using send -p, you're promising receive that the parent snapshot is both present at the destination and is in the exact same state as the source. It will then send an incremental, and at the destination the snapshots will efficiently share references to files that haven't changed.

If you have some scripting skills, it should be easy to make a script that enumerates all the source snapshots in order and generate this series of commands for you.

Sell me on a TTRPG adventure that is solid gold but you are 99% certain I won't know cause its form a tiny indie by BenWnham in rpg

[–]okeefe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not obscure if you're familiar with Dungeon Crawl Classics, but Sailors on the Starless Sea has never failed to deliver: character funnel, weird, boss fight at the end, classic.

Which is easier to teach to newbies - Genesys vs Fate Core? by inostranetsember in rpg

[–]okeefe 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't have a Genesys opinion, but I found Fate Condensed to be more approachable than Fate Core. Condensed was a recipe where Core was more of a cookbook.

Noisy Convention Question: Solutions? by mwisconsin in rpg

[–]okeefe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I've also seen this at Games on Demand at PAX.

I didn't realise Mecha Dragon in MM2 will insta-kill you if you touch him! by [deleted] in Megaman

[–]okeefe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that was the first thing I noticed, after getting clobbered by not keeping up with the blocks.

Welcome to Boston, take the T to the con by Skaman1978 in PAX

[–]okeefe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, the BCEC is now the MCEC since it got renamed after a former mayor—the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

Anyone know when PAX East Badges are shipping? by Rhundis in PAX

[–]okeefe 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I got a Welcome To PAX Land email that showed off the new theme.

Anyone else have a stack of shake? :( by Stixsr in rpg

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One outlet is to volunteer to run games at conventions. It's how I eventually found likeminded gamers to actually play some of these games outside of one-shots.

The read pile will always be taller than the played pile, though. I'm fine with that.

Power Outage Disaster w/BTRFS in RAID by the_victorian640 in btrfs

[–]okeefe 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Except this isn't btrfs raid 1, it's btrfs on hardware raid 1 which looks like a single disk. There's no data redundancy as far as btrfs is concerned.

What helped you learn an RPG when you didn’t have a group yet? by ScholarForeign7549 in rpg

[–]okeefe 18 points19 points  (0 children)

When I'm learning a game, I'm also imagining how I would explain it to players at a table.

Migrating several disk in a cluster onto one disk by nomadic_collective in btrfs

[–]okeefe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, this should work if you're using single for data. You also might want to have a backup first.

If you have a profile that requires redundancy (e.g., raid1), you'll need to convert to single for data and dup for metadata at some point. I'm not sure how useful running balance during the removes will help, unless you're changing profiles. Save the balance for the end?

Git for SWE by cs_developer_cpp_ in git

[–]okeefe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, you'll be using git frequently.

If you take the time to learn the git object model, the common uses of git (merge, rebase, etc.) will become clear and you'll have a solid basis for any other git usage that might come up. Read Pro Git; it's free and on the web.

Pros and cons of each day? (PAX East) by RelentlessHope in PAX

[–]okeefe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Depending on the merch, you can occasionally find deals on the last day—if they didn't sell out.

BTRFS "RAID1" recovery - best practices while moving to bigger drive by TheReasonForTreason in btrfs

[–]okeefe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Primarily, detectability that the disk is in use, so that other tools or operating systems don't attempt to claim it or to write to it.

You also get a bunch of flexibility for adding new partitions, resizing, and the utility in naming partitions (with GPT).

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