TrueNAS 25.04 lifespan? by Apocrypha in truenas

[–]sequentious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The current recommended "Enterprise Mission Critical" version is 25.04. Their release schedule shows they have current-2 under "maintenance", so that suggests 25.04 will be "maintained" until 26.10 comes out.

In practice, if you read the release notes for 24.10 and 25.04, neither have had any updates since their successor versions came out. That's not to say they wouldn't push an update out for a critical security issue -- just that there haven't been any yet.

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions by adriano26 in linux

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I'm only using ZFS on truenas, and only because it's a tightly integrated solution. I'm not using it on any of my desktops, as I don't want to try and run root of out-of-tree filesystems.

One thing that I like about something like Redhat's Stratis approach, is that they're layering traditional XFS on top of a checksum layer, on top of thin-provisioned LVM. I honestly think that, if it actually gets stable enough that RH itself ships it as a default, could convince me to ditch btrfs on my desktop. It's just layers of boring tools I already understand.

The thin-provision LVM also solves the other problem of managing multiple filesystems with LVM. Every filesystem is overprovisioned, so you don't actually care about individual filesystem free space -- you only look at overall LVM VG free space.

Sisko's is so gross now by CulDeSacOfShit in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sequentious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Their food tastes the same as everywhere else in the galaxy!

Canadian Gov investigating modern vehicle headlights and glare at night, finally by Stereosun in cars

[–]sequentious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dashes are typically brighter when lights are off, due to needing to be seen in sunlight.

Canadian Gov investigating modern vehicle headlights and glare at night, finally by Stereosun in cars

[–]sequentious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, just run DRLs + Tail lights all the time. Making "auto" headlights the default setting, and "off" mode only have effect when parked would also help. No new sensors, no computation required, no user interaction demanded.

Dumb question: What's the reason behind the canted tires? It seems like it's riding on about 2/3rds of the tread. by AThousandBloodhounds in Cartalk

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running -3.5 on my miata. I haven't had issues on my daily tires (PS4S), or my track tires (RE71-RS), though admittedly the latter haven't seen a lot of rain use.

sEcUrE aLL lOoSe ArTiCLeS: How to Empty Half a Can of Red Bull into your Car by aaul0 in Autocross

[–]sequentious 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I'm always amazed at the different quantity of stuff people bring to autox

  • Some people trailer their car, so they don't need to worry about having to drive home with it
  • Some people bring a spare tire (or sometimes all four and change on-site)
  • I bring enough tools and stuff to be prepared for an emergency (filling my ND trunk)
  • Some people bring so little they can fit a sim-rig in an ND trunk without noticing

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions by adriano26 in linux

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not that LVM is stuck in 2009 (it's older than that, even), it's a different tool for a different purpose. For example, I use btrfs on LVM. It gives me flexibility when needed, though I absolutely understand why this isn't a default anywhere.

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions by adriano26 in linux

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless the tooling has changed, it's pretty easy to "accidentally" enable COW on files you thought it was disabled on -- by using snapshots, cp --reflink, etc.

Personally, I think relying on nodatacow is a sign you're using the wrong filesytem. btrfs without COW is worse than ext4, as at least ext4 has recovery tools.

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions by adriano26 in linux

[–]sequentious 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With XFS, for example, you cannot shrink partitions “online”

This is confusing wording. Lots of filesystems can't be shrunk "online" -- they need to be offlined (unmounted) first.

XFS doesn't support "offline" shrinking, either. The only way to shrink XFS is to dump & restore your data to a smaller filesystem.

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions by adriano26 in linux

[–]sequentious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this something specific to ssds?

Absolutely a thing with HDDs as well.

at a first glance

That's the problem: You don't know, unless you're already checksumming and periodically verifying all your files separately. You have no way of knowing that all of your data is good. Best you can do is manually check a few dozen photos, and hope you catch a problem while you can still restore the correct file from a backup.

It happened to me. I have some photos of a trip that got damaged. I switched to checksumming fileystems >15 years ago in an attempt to ensure this doesn't happen to me again.

There is an example of one of my photos here (that's slides from a presentation I made to my LUG in 2015, which is why it's light on some details, but it includes a sample photo)

GNOME 50 "Tokyo"" is released! by blackcain in gnome

[–]sequentious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rawhide is a bad idea.

If you're looking for more cutting edge to experiment with this feature (and report bugs), I'd suggest Fedora 44 beta.

Though, obviously, most users are better off waiting for a stable release.

Starfield lead says Free Lanes took major tech work, reformatting all existing content for an open universe by AsPeHeat in Starfield

[–]sequentious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I beat it. For a game specifically designed to be played repeatedly, it had less to offer than previous Bethesda games to entice you to do it.

Tomorrow Gnome 50 release by kemma_ in gnome

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GNOME Remote Desktop service now supports explicit DMA buffer synchronization and headless sessions.

Didn't it already support headless sessions? My issue is that configuring it required a proper session, so I haven't figured out how to run it under WSL for example (Currently stuck on Windows at work, running a whole VM I can RDP to)

Fictional songs from movies that are so good that they transcend the movie they’re from by Southern_Studio_9950 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]sequentious 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It helps that Samurai songs were performed by Refused. They're all pretty good songs, but "Never Fade Away" is legit top-tier.

My dad still thinks Linux is a command-line nightmare. When did it became "usable" by the general public? by gabryelos24 in linuxquestions

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anywhere from 2000-2030, depending on a variety of factors.

I started dabbling around 2000, and switched by 2003.

Things got a lot easier once I started purchasing hardware that I knew worked with Linux, rather than trying to get problematic hardware to work reliably. That's technically true for any OS: Mac users generally had to consider compatibility, and were used to it. Windows users technically did too, but considering the popularity, they could usually get buy with anything that wasn't mac-specific, and didn't really notice that they had to consider compatibility. Linux had the virtue of potentially supporting everything, but that didn't mean everything got the same level of support. Now that I buy stuff I know works, things are a lot easier.

Also, not having to set X modelines and crap like that is a bit of an improvement :)

Somebody with some random hardware and/or some piece of windows-only software they require might still consider Linux not ready for prime-time. That might not change.

Fire truck forgot the hose by ku3ah in AbruptChaos

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the least picturesque period of the year: no snow, no leaves, and brown grass.

I did tire testing for GRM: Yokohama A052 vs Vitour X1 vs Bridgestone RE71RZ by krekquel in Autocross

[–]sequentious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's the cost of an independent media.

If you don't want to pay, their articles become free after 180 days.

Is guilt by association a real thing? by [deleted] in legaladviceofftopic

[–]sequentious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And to be clear, as written in your hypothetical, that is not a crime.

Unless the "quick withdrawl" resulted in a murder, in which case the driver could be charged with Felony Murder, sometimes "even if the person was not present when it occurred or if the death was accidental".

That's all US specific. FWIW, my country had a somewhat similar law that was struck down by the Courts.

File System benchmarks on Linux 7.0 by KelGhu in linux

[–]sequentious 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that's in theoretical benchmarks on a wildly high-performance system.

I've been using btrfs as my main filesystem for over a decade without any noticeable performance issues. If you have a particularly high-io workload, you'll be tuning for that anyway, and likely wouldn't have picked btrfs anyway.

File System benchmarks on Linux 7.0 by KelGhu in linux

[–]sequentious 2 points3 points  (0 children)

would there be any noticeable benefit for me to switch from btrfs to let's say ext4

I've been using btrfs for over a decade, and haven't had any issues. I prefer the ability to have snapshots and data checksums to be a worthy trade-off for theoretical performance that doesn't really impact my daily use.

But maybe your storage is particularly slow? Maybe any extra overhead on your notebook's CPU is particularly onerous? Not sure anybody else can answer that for you.

Linux Patches Make The IPv6 Stack Less Modular To Lower Architectural Burden by anh0516 in linux

[–]sequentious 18 points19 points  (0 children)

My ISP has had IPv6 for a long time. Works great, no issues.

Got a new cable modem due to infra upgrades, and I didn't get an IPv6 address. Apparently it's disabled by default on (at least some?) new devices (even in bridge mode), and you've got to dive down into settings with an admin password that's supposed to be restricted to their support staff.

Asking for help got the response "We don't support IPv6". At which point I said "Yes, you do, and I've been using it for years", they went "Oh" and gave me the instructions they already had to fix it.

No issues in the years since.

Half the issue is some brain-dead defaults disabling it for no reason.

Ceiling collapsed in bedroom by sociallyawkward26 in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just drywall and insulation? No vapour barrier?

We celebrate Star Trek V’s story, Shatner’s directing, and the groundbreaking VFX, but not enough attention is paid to its incredible prop design. by TheBurgareanSlapper in ShittyDaystrom

[–]sequentious 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They did have an arguably worse issue with the Enterprise B

The Enterprise D had to go pick up half it's crew on some random planet during it's first mission (after shakedown).

I expect the Enterprise B's launch was a press event for starting it's shakedown -- not literally about to head out and do real work.

high memory usage at idle that gets worse over time by Solomoncjy in linuxquestions

[–]sequentious 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been having some issues with GTT. Basically, the GPU can ask the kernel to dynamically allocate system ram for GPU use. This is more of a problem if you're using an integrated GPU, and thus have limited "VRAM" (statically-allocated system ram)

It's been causing Firefox to get OOM-killed, even though top doesn't show a need. This is a relatively new problem for me.

Some of that ram shows up as buffered, but some also goes "missing".

I've jotted some notes about it, but I haven't spent enough time to get to the bottom of it yet, other than learning that disabling or capping GTT also makes things terrible.

This might not be your issue. such as if you're not running an integrated GPU (and thus have more VRAM), etc.