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phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-20#1586446 << i
think you mentioned before, but you had some sikrit hardware raid
that you were reasonably happy with? i've been doing some cleanup on my data,
throwing out old usb drives and such, i've been meaning
to replace software raid (which is ... spotty) with something
that i don't have
to
think about
☝︎ mircea_popescu: prolly mature enough by now i guess. anyway shouldn't be a huge
thing.
mod6: yeah. ok, it merits a
ticket in
the project.
mircea_popescu: well, it was more like "should be exposed
to user, WHAT checkpoint
to use". ie same as here.
mod6: lemme see if I can dig
that part up
too.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mod6
that "separate config file" references what i recall as a previous discussion. << aha, now i recall. I
think
the suggestion was
that one could, from a config file,
turn checkpoints on or off, or add new ones if
they wished.
mircea_popescu: mod6
that "separate config file" references what i recall as a previous discussion.
mod6: also, iirc around
the same
time
there was much ado about
the wedge @ 168`001 or whatever it was... but
that
turned out
to be
the database locking issue.
mod6: and it kinda continues from
there, so worth a bit of a read
a111: Logged on 2015-06-24 18:31 mod6: ascii_field: re: checkpoints:
the patch worked fine
to remove checkpoints, but it was
tabled for
the
time being.
the main discussion around
this was
that it could be helpful
to hvae checkpoints in
there
to prevent spamming of blocks from
timestamps before a checkpoint.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but a raid controller
that is made-for-our-purpose, and part of
the whole stack all
the way
to db...
mircea_popescu: and no,
there's nothing fundamentally wrong with "buy 64 ssd drives and raid
them".
mircea_popescu: tbh, if
the "hdd" is correctly constructed (out of ssds, blockchain is
the killer problem for ssds)
then it should be so fucking fast...
mod6: <+asciilifeform>
the one caveat
that i can
think of is
that it may very well
turn out
to be unusably slow (as in, >10min block verify), on anything but reiser. (if
there even.) << would be great
to start experimenting with
this in '17
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> and so we are back
to
the original bitcoinfs. << aha
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes iirc
the discussion at
the
time ended with me pointing out it should be made arbitrary
to user's choice. <<
there was a whole public discussion on
this at
the
time. and at
that point, i backed away from it.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean
the kind of cheap you're
talking about, "oh, soy is cheap and gold is expensive". volumes scale, soy is sold in
the
ton and gold in
the ounce.
there's no "cheap" ; if it's 20 a pop you bundle 1k
together.
mircea_popescu: especially if a)
the piece is actually useful as opposed
to curio and b) it's being sold for scrap by
the imperial idiots.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron i mean
that if some guy who is actively developing for some iron is shying away from buying a piece because he only has part of
the money i'd consider cutting a deal.
mircea_popescu: (obviously what he's
trying
to do is speculate
the cluelessness of english speakers, but whatever, we already know
the guy's an utter shithead.)
mircea_popescu: you know,
the original russians, before
the mongols came, flattened
them and some random upstarts in some ravine further up north found
themselves about in
the position of argentina in 1950.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the notion
that russia was at some point popular in
the ukraine is utterly insane. when was
this exactly, i don't get it, before or after
the muscovy went
to space ?
mircea_popescu: random fun fact : no matter how you
turn
the ~50bn worth of us resources & materiel shipped
to
the allies in ww2 into "present day shitollars", it still doesn't come ANYWHERE NEAR what
the defeat in
the middle east cost.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 23:23 danielpbarron:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm
trying
to get eulora working on some new machines,
they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn't work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow
this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every
time someone comes up with another way
to make a driver stop working
danielpbarron: from my very limited understanding, something was changed in
the kernel
that
the driver was expecting
to be
there
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 20:16 mircea_popescu: writing drivers is
two
things : a) write
the fw ; or b) call nvidia faggots on a mailing list.
danielpbarron:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-19#1586263 << i'm
trying
to get eulora working on some new machines,
they came with video cards, official nvidia driver doesn't work on latest linux kernel, (works fine on older kernel) but somehow
this is nvidia's fault for not releasing a free fix every
time someone comes up with another way
to make a driver stop working
☝︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: hanbot: right you are, my dear.
thank you for being
the proverbial alert reader! 2016 year-in-review now updated
to include resolution of courts circus competition.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 20:30 mircea_popescu is open
to financing some degree of old hardware buying for share in ownership. re
the above g5 sort of
thing.
ben_vulpes: i
think
that i just crashed my node asking for
the memory pool.
ben_vulpes: entirely unrelatedly
to anything else, does
trb's `getmemorypool' actually work?
mircea_popescu: also an ~incredible~ point in case of how ustardian brain damage actually works.
the very idiots
that advertise captcha breaking... use captcha!
trinque has at least
two phrases branded on his mind by
the republic
trinque: what am I going
to do, buy fucking US stocks?
trinque will have a monthly buy of
this and similar
till doomsday
mircea_popescu: certainly a LOT more saner
than "prepper" idiots storing canned food etc.
mircea_popescu: trinque i am saying - depending on exactly what one's life goals etc are ; running a warehouse full of old iron bought on
the cheap is a very reasonable lifestyle choice.
mircea_popescu is open
to financing some degree of old hardware buying for share in ownership. re
the above g5 sort of
thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because
there's no functioning religion without a strong ascetic line.
mircea_popescu: teh republic will have
to commit
to in some manner providing lifeline for above.
trinque: yeah, I've got one of
those guys sitting here
too
mircea_popescu: think for a moment what immense pile of varying switches
the other approach would be like.
davout: did we just add
tmsr-db on
the
todo?
mircea_popescu: but yes,
trinque has it,
the discussion really is about what a db would call "the disk data format".