Thread: [GParted-Devel] GParted 0.19.0 is planned for Release on June 10, 2014
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From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-03 16:39:03
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GParted 0.19.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. You can download the pre-release from: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/curtis/gparted-0.19.0-beta1.tar.bz2 If you discover any problems please let me know. Regards, Curtis Gedak The release notes so far are as follows: GParted 0.19.0 (2014-06-10) ============================ Release Notes ------------- This release of GParted includes some important bug fixes and language translation updates. ### Key changes include: * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens Bug Fixes --------- * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior (#729139) * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens (#690542) * Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] file systems (#721516) * Prevent GLib-CRITICAL Source ID not found warning messages (#729800) Code Credits ------------ Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi, Piotr Drąg, and Curtis Gedak. Translations (new/updated) -------------------------- cs(Marek Černocký), da(Joe Hansen), de(Jan Simon), es(Daniel Mustieles), gd(GunChleoc), id(Andika Triwidada), ko(Seong-ho Cho), lv(Rūdolfs Mazurs), pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Ferreira) Dependencies (new/updated) -------------------------- * no change. |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2014-06-04 13:33:43
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Dear all, I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.19.0-beta1/ Please test it. Steven. On 06/04/2014 12:38 AM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > GParted 0.19.0 is planned for release on Tuesday, June 10, 2014. > > You can download the pre-release from: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/curtis/gparted-0.19.0-beta1.tar.bz2 > > If you discover any problems please let me know. > > Regards, > Curtis Gedak > > The release notes so far are as follows: > > GParted 0.19.0 (2014-06-10) > ============================ > > Release Notes > ------------- > This release of GParted includes some important bug fixes and > language translation updates. > > ### Key changes include: > > * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior > * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens > > Bug Fixes > --------- > * Refactor OperationDetail to address random crash behavior (#729139) > * Make partition information dialog viewable on 800x600 screens (#690542) > * Use e2image to move/copy ext[234] file systems (#721516) > * Prevent GLib-CRITICAL Source ID not found warning messages (#729800) > > Code Credits > ------------ > Code enhancements are courtesy of Mike Fleetwood, Phillip Susi, > Piotr Drąg, and Curtis Gedak. > > Translations (new/updated) > -------------------------- > cs(Marek Černocký), da(Joe Hansen), de(Jan Simon), es(Daniel Mustieles), > gd(GunChleoc), id(Andika Triwidada), ko(Seong-ho Cho), lv(Rūdolfs Mazurs), > pl(Piotr Drąg), pt_BR(Rafael Ferreira) > > Dependencies (new/updated) > -------------------------- > * no change. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > GParted-Devel mailing list > GPa...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gparted-devel > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/47CF935C Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0 8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C |
From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-04 18:25:12
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Thank you Steven for this new beta image. I am delighted to say that the gparted-live-0.19.0-beta1-i486.iso image booted and ran properly on all the systems I tested. It booted under BIOS, and also under UEFI. :-) With this image being a tad larger than the last 0.18.0-2 stable release, I noticed that the image no longer boots in a Virtual Machine with only 128 MB of RAM. It did boot in 160 MB of RAM so I will update the GParted requirements on the web site accordingly. The only problem I encountered is when shutting down. More specifically, on several systems after shutdown is selected and the CD ejects, the computer pauses indefinitely and _does not_ show the prompt: Please remove the disc, close the tray (if any) and press ENTER to continue: The lack of this promtp can lead to confusion for our users regarding how to proceed further with the shutdown. I know we encountered this problem with some of the 0.18.0 test images, but at the time we did not have a solution. It would be helpful if we can fix this problem, or if not then perhaps we might consider dropping the prompt altogether and permit the system to fully power down. Any thoughts? Regards, Curtis On 14-06-04 07:33 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: > Dear all, > I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.19.0-beta1/ > Please test it. > > Steven. |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2014-06-05 09:38:27
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Hi Curtis, On 2014年06月05日 02:25, Curtis Gedak wrote: > Thank you Steven for this new beta image. > > I am delighted to say that the gparted-live-0.19.0-beta1-i486.iso image > booted and ran properly on all the systems I tested. It booted under > BIOS, and also under UEFI. :-) > > With this image being a tad larger than the last 0.18.0-2 stable > release, I noticed that the image no longer boots in a Virtual Machine > with only 128 MB of RAM. It did boot in 160 MB of RAM so I will update > the GParted requirements on the web site accordingly. > > The only problem I encountered is when shutting down. More > specifically, on several systems after shutdown is selected and the CD > ejects, the computer pauses indefinitely and _does not_ show the prompt: > > Please remove the disc, close the tray (if any) and press ENTER to > continue: > > The lack of this promtp can lead to confusion for our users regarding > how to proceed further with the shutdown. > > I know we encountered this problem with some of the 0.18.0 test images, > but at the time we did not have a solution. It would be helpful if we > can fix this problem, or if not then perhaps we might consider dropping > the prompt altogether and permit the system to fully power down. Any > thoughts? Thanks for the feedback. This week I am busy, therefore I will test that in a few days, and if there is no better solution, then as you mentioned, just power off the machine. Regards, Steven. > > Regards, > Curtis > > On 14-06-04 07:33 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> Dear all, >> I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/0.19.0-beta1/ >> Please test it. >> >> Steven. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > GParted-Devel mailing list > GPa...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gparted-devel -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/47CF935C Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0 8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C |
From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-05 15:46:14
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Hi Steven, On 14-06-05 03:38 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: > On 2014年06月05日 02:25, Curtis Gedak wrote: >> The only problem I encountered is when shutting down. More >> specifically, on several systems after shutdown is selected and the CD >> ejects, the computer pauses indefinitely and _does not_ show the prompt: >> >> Please remove the disc, close the tray (if any) and press ENTER to >> continue: >> >> The lack of this prompt can lead to confusion for our users regarding >> how to proceed further with the shutdown. >> > Thanks for the feedback. > This week I am busy, therefore I will test that in a few days, and if > there is no better solution, then as you mentioned, just power off the > machine. > Since the "remove disc" prompt does show up _after_ a person presses ENTER, perhaps a buffer is not being flushed. If I figure out a solution to the problem I will let you know. Regards, Curtis |
From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-06 02:46:27
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Hi Steven, I just discovered another problem with GParted Live 0.19.0-beta1-1. More specifically the /dev/mapper/ partition entries of the form "ABCp#" are not created at boot time for motherboard BIOS RAID (fake RAID) devices. For example on DMRaid device isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0: isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 is created for the first partition isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0p1 is not created A quick fix for the next build of GParted Live would be to remove the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag when building the GParted application. That way GParted will be able to work with the /dev/mapper partition entries that are created. Regards, Curtis |
From: Phillip S. <ps...@ub...> - 2014-06-06 03:32:41
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/05/2014 10:46 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: | Hi Steven, | | I just discovered another problem with GParted Live 0.19.0-beta1-1. | | More specifically the /dev/mapper/ partition entries of the form "ABCp#" | are not created at boot time for motherboard BIOS RAID (fake RAID) | devices. For example on DMRaid device isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0: | isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 is created for the first partition | isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0p1 is not created | | A quick fix for the next build of GParted Live would be to remove the | "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag when building the GParted | application. That way GParted will be able to work with the /dev/mapper | partition entries that are created. Oh boy, I guess I never did get those dmraid fixes merged into debian and it seems that the dmraid package there has been orphaned and taken over by the qa team. Perhaps I will try to take over maintainership of it and get the ubuntu version merged up. As an alternative to disabling libparted-dmraid, you might consider pulling the dmraid package from ubuntu instead of debian unstable. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTkTZKAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwdawIAIbrCuKG+lFpHl8KDy1D8NsC Yu0L2XQ8OfCpVXX5lBSI5WRD5fFwATAICMh1dLhphyk73FdTif8pHvccBZ4CIa0z DITk5m9x2uob7PBBlhvzrGzW0aV1xcMqStiJfIInpMFCGVdp8nThUmTf7CHFnz7B y6bsFH3j6qB7P4MH9219i5vHpscFp1BWaOacWfJDYBgiVCeOwK7wvAyPMr9bhGV1 qqhzMNqyRVUdU2FHU29mCj61Hf/zCLw9wLSmAT56cFoDMvUDgv0D43n0dzTVhIRE V3c5N1fKE8E5STw3CjjlX2MhE4mnaR+tV3oNFN4oUgr9NfeW0ipK9hqNLlJNRLk= =r6v+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2014-06-06 11:03:04
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Philip, On 2014年06月06日 11:32, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 06/05/2014 10:46 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > | Hi Steven, > | > | I just discovered another problem with GParted Live 0.19.0-beta1-1. > | > | More specifically the /dev/mapper/ partition entries of the form "ABCp#" > | are not created at boot time for motherboard BIOS RAID (fake RAID) > | devices. For example on DMRaid device isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0: > | isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 is created for the first partition > | isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0p1 is not created > | > | A quick fix for the next build of GParted Live would be to remove the > | "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag when building the GParted > | application. That way GParted will be able to work with the /dev/mapper > | partition entries that are created. > > Oh boy, I guess I never did get those dmraid fixes merged into debian and it seems that the dmraid package there has been orphaned and taken over by the qa team. Perhaps I will try to take over maintainership of it and get the ubuntu version merged up. > > As an alternative to disabling libparted-dmraid, you might consider pulling the dmraid package from ubuntu instead of debian unstable. So you meant to use dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-4.2ubuntu3) from Ubuntu trusty instead of dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-5) from Debian Sid? Thanks. Steven. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > GParted-Devel mailing list > GPa...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gparted-devel - -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/47CF935C Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0 8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTkZ/UAAoJEBHBEtpHz5NcCFwP/1RUo82E0zuoY2LX+gqBuylZ NzrwoSGVV92J1/UHNwoMmOsd/g1s04j8iM83fV/CIq3pg9HdHbcr5A8oIX9xafGZ 2x6vWLQiyvAXoKLZFn1sTIHQYfPE/aiqosyjXswWNu8qCdQiqafX29A4PxnehY34 kB7XmHPC9PE46IXAXsVO+Q3tM+rawBHqTpPHfec/QNpH9R+abU+Zs8DyLZga8f/L sAKPHFENQrwfOpPGPRQjXSaoiWs0Q8wFV7HoolcK7kKyDn2wwRLUCHsv0BjWCCzD Vyd40PazI0Lf/f1sXaIu0bwf19QbQV41RoxK3qPvnRT2xJrJcMQbYq6iAr7aTUa3 NeM90Oa2vgf+ZQ3qicJ043UpKa0DtoziN1IctpdReXklyXuZxZ75QpTmF5EQWTcD WdSHk0KfUP0hn+nufxPRKXLCFwprsL7eyO+xiXXnu3rhYbi7P1RxUQD2VukP+7ma 8jl1d9+snxtBE0oZWpZokzZ88WwM64qVJBafsZVDsReya+n1zws7oAAXtahvTp7p +XzFzrYW21ycWRFTUosEubPUcqI9DhuYf2XC7Wendf7Wg31AgXNBOzDxn1PvBiOh IF3jtxAIfCdq4waaRISvxRGZGtSiVZh1URz18QIh4aduYk7wQn7NfothoTX918Ly rFNphSQJse3kq946rY/m =Q2fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Phillip S. <ps...@ub...> - 2014-06-06 13:32:13
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/6/2014 7:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: | So you meant to use dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-4.2ubuntu3) from Ubuntu trusty | instead of dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-5) from Debian Sid? Yes... and you might also need the ubuntu version of kpartx. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTkcLVAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrw8sEH/0D7LE4iZKZ/kKnsNiMNI0ff a4zWBOytYTMi1/E8N6vGY9qMkTod9BwuiNKVabd6rBc3unwJK0Wo2Qp8kOizn4wo IOnbFHjpWcfy02s4cj0xB9szb8kRZymzWmypM1I96TWSyHD1iQsyEFaSMX1Zjy0R 6eQPlRiR/R3a+n74pq3ubd2I4IEbW5sUwY3y4/Pzza2otMBZDLAfVGZGNcjskryk Irz6odqaGlEK/+zGyYrJou3GjGU1vZpKZnTOlKw4U5ZcUL4kQA2uNXs+VBED/NpC msz+6bqjDmSLQyzW37w+gLzGQRZyT/8OGQk92Og/q0JB/8AF03CgD2RXquNFZVc= =pa6z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2014-06-08 02:43:10
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014年06月06日 21:32, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/6/2014 7:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: > | So you meant to use dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-4.2ubuntu3) from Ubuntu trusty > | instead of dmraid (1.0.0.rc16-5) from Debian Sid? > > Yes... and you might also need the ubuntu version of kpartx. > Hi Philip, Curtis, I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-2 in the testing release. This one uses dmraid and kpartx from Ubuntu repository (recompiled on Debian Sid), and the "eject" prompt is also removed when rebooting/halting. Please let me know if anything I have to improve. Thanks. Steven. - -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/47CF935C Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0 8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTk81rAAoJEBHBEtpHz5NcG7oQAL6LDtYrXR8ONCzYaeXitvsw +jR2Eo593Kh074V7ZHrWMsowcMI2TYdlJPJTyQb/78X3q4SS6FZ496h6YUYhmCbn Bf3BuspEYVmXbQw7NtTYIXAoncjXpkkZFXMJB84qvU08f5XZXAi6Lrnjm/pE1tPo daoePde2h7zsK5JSdAzwKYfTmwL1/PPP7wISSGnv8Ot4yLgdSGP5im5g6v4vd3qp 2Diw5hIObWknfo/Vjs9EXl4QqBi54EJjCd4yom/SzwFUf+dif3f2IycoTpapzzDq PbjlLKKBjeX/CMvKmEKSOmSUYyXs64plPg/3a5vG3j5oNwApXPlq9UIKuWQ9eiKT nGXzxdm5ONMb3HWeTnHT4VsxJ3Knrorxzaf/aKyWyQLeCPRNzUVASQyvVLwWEDbU K/EPp/cX7jA8LZ7W6O/YB0LQaUY5zfyCuUWZvt+KkG574mG+ZCS9DDgdpgfXOlFT sBPPIJg9l+GaacUlOnkaVkblCGQUhXdEG0/OBBHZrW4TbKdFusrjct0x51/eouA3 LZXFnQphHVibApOjThSYoNMW+JdAZE582/WJ7ulTwgbY7do6/CcUUHJ3qu4/RaMf qwqzMzdxPu9SqZZzAc6+cMf1cfh4KRUiMKWe3gseMpHy4WVInwTwi2G2Yzxv75L3 8H7WQCb8CYZTtXWQVf32 =xM8g -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-08 16:06:38
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Hi Steven, Thank you for building this new live image. The new shutdown behavior (without the eject) works well. I am in favor of this change. The change to dmraid and kpartx from the Ubuntu repository has made for some interesting differences. My motherboard BIOS raid is now recognized as a Linux Software RAID (/dev/md126) instead of DMRaid (/dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0). This is not a problem in itself because I know that Linux Software RAID now works with some motherboard BIOS raids. The problem is that performance has suffered a significant setback. Disk operations that used to take mere seconds now take several minutes. There were also some unexplained new files in /dev/mapper and /dev/dm-* that I could not readily account for. Due to this and some other unexpected changes, I would prefer not to use dmraid and kpartx from ubuntu. Would you be be able to create an image using the usual Debian packages and drop the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for GParted? Thanks, Curtis On 14-06-07 08:41 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: > Hi Philip, Curtis, > I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-2 in the testing release. > This one uses dmraid and kpartx from Ubuntu repository (recompiled on > Debian Sid), and the "eject" prompt is also removed when rebooting/halting. > Please let me know if anything I have to improve. > Thanks. |
From: Phillip S. <ps...@ub...> - 2014-06-09 00:31:40
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 06/08/2014 12:06 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: | Hi Steven, | | Thank you for building this new live image. | | The new shutdown behavior (without the eject) works well. I am in favor | of this change. | | The change to dmraid and kpartx from the Ubuntu repository has made for | some interesting differences. | | My motherboard BIOS raid is now recognized as a Linux Software RAID | (/dev/md126) instead of DMRaid (/dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0). This is | not a problem in itself because I know that Linux Software RAID now | works with some motherboard BIOS raids. Ahh yes, mdadm is now used for intel fakeraids instead of dmraid, if mdadm is installed. | The problem is that performance has suffered a significant setback. Disk | operations that used to take mere seconds now take several minutes. | There were also some unexplained new files in /dev/mapper and /dev/dm-* | that I could not readily account for. Due to this and some other | unexpected changes, I would prefer not to use dmraid and kpartx from ubuntu. This is very strange; Intel has been very active in integrating support for their fakeraids into mdadm, and as with dmraid, the trick is mostly recognizing the metadata and configuring the raid driver correctly and after that the performance should be top notch, as it is with native mdadm. In fact, these days dm/dmraid use the mdadm kernel driver to actually implement the raid anyhow, so there should be no difference performance wise. | Would you be be able to create an image using the usual Debian packages | and drop the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for GParted? I'm curious, do you run into the same problem running debian? Because it's gparted build does have --enable-libparted-dmraid ( because it is now identical to Ubuntu's ). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJTlQBiAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwSVQH+gK+qW8diEXKFjGbwtLenRr0 WGyfdNd6CDuOKtpuRo1F5OmcBtoU5LVKg/N2rHbu71P6jhAnS2vOZRR41CBweAJ+ SFzhBW9UufjGXYud6npSvRvs3GeZtxrCGK48nbu+2wj+r6hB8AMuo+JclY6d8+kK hObF6ZPKUbS9MNOnj33v3657pigpL+qq8LRhiXD5VFnlFUF3vncv0oxA8c20nKHZ KzdJ1fIN3ROnVK4nAyyclffzHEn+4euoVVDl9Y6yG4ycKG2ixZIhPDLB/Zuku6Pj aSAqCmrV/cCLxD1ntxuqXw8wFuVf3IpTA3jQeF4yp23ZVhX0/Lz9Mk5nWEqDsy0= =N0ec -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Steven S. <st...@nc...> - 2014-06-09 07:02:32
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On 06/09/2014 12:06 AM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Thank you for building this new live image. > > The new shutdown behavior (without the eject) works well. I am in favor > of this change. > > The change to dmraid and kpartx from the Ubuntu repository has made for > some interesting differences. > > My motherboard BIOS raid is now recognized as a Linux Software RAID > (/dev/md126) instead of DMRaid (/dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0). This is > not a problem in itself because I know that Linux Software RAID now > works with some motherboard BIOS raids. > > The problem is that performance has suffered a significant setback. Disk > operations that used to take mere seconds now take several minutes. > There were also some unexplained new files in /dev/mapper and /dev/dm-* > that I could not readily account for. Due to this and some other > unexpected changes, I would prefer not to use dmraid and kpartx from ubuntu. > > Would you be be able to create an image using the usual Debian packages > and drop the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for GParted? > > Thanks, > Curtis Hi Curtis, Philip, I have created another GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-3 which uses dmraid and kpartx from Debian repository. I also drop the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for GParted. Please compare this with GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-2 and let me know if anything has to be improved. Steven. > > On 14-06-07 08:41 PM, Steven Shiau wrote: >> Hi Philip, Curtis, >> I have uploaded GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-2 in the testing release. >> This one uses dmraid and kpartx from Ubuntu repository (recompiled on >> Debian Sid), and the "eject" prompt is also removed when rebooting/halting. >> Please let me know if anything I have to improve. >> Thanks. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > GParted-Devel mailing list > GPa...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gparted-devel > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 4096R/47CF935C Fingerprint: 0240 1FEB 695D 7112 62F0 8796 11C1 12DA 47CF 935C |
From: Curtis G. <ge...@gm...> - 2014-06-09 16:27:18
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Hi Steven, On 14-06-09 01:02 AM, Steven Shiau wrote: > I have created another GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-3 which uses dmraid and > kpartx from Debian repository. I also drop the > "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for GParted. > Please compare this with GParted live 0.19.0-beta1-2 and let me know if > anything has to be improved. Thank you for creating another GParted Live image with the suggested changes. I tested gparted-live-0.19.0-beta1-3-i486.iso with my Intel motherboard BIOS RAID and it works great! :-) Tomorrow (June 10th) I will package up a new GParted 0.19.0 tarball with language translation updates. When you create the GParted Live image, please create it similar to this 0.19.0-beta1-3 image. By that I mean do not use the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" configure flag for the GParted application, and do not use the dmraid or kpartx packages from ubuntu. Phillip, Answers follow in-line. On 14-06-08 06:31 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > On 06/08/2014 12:06 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: > | > | My motherboard BIOS raid is now recognized as a Linux Software RAID > | (/dev/md126) instead of DMRaid (/dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol0). > This is > | not a problem in itself because I know that Linux Software RAID now > | works with some motherboard BIOS raids. > > Ahh yes, mdadm is now used for intel fakeraids instead of dmraid, if > mdadm is installed. > > | The problem is that performance has suffered a significant setback. > Disk > | operations that used to take mere seconds now take several minutes. > | There were also some unexplained new files in /dev/mapper and /dev/dm-* > | that I could not readily account for. Due to this and some other > | unexpected changes, I would prefer not to use dmraid and kpartx from > ubuntu. > > This is very strange; Intel has been very active in integrating > support for their fakeraids into mdadm, and as with dmraid, the trick > is mostly recognizing the metadata and configuring the raid driver > correctly and after that the performance should be top notch, as it is > with native mdadm. In fact, these days dm/dmraid use the mdadm kernel > driver to actually implement the raid anyhow, so there should be no > difference performance wise. I agree that this finding is unexpected. Following are some timings using my Intel software RAID that contains two 160 GB SATA drives. Action A: Shrink (not move) empty ext4 partition from 40 GiB to 20 GiB. Action B: Grow (not move) empty ext4 partition from 20 GiB to 40 GiB. GParted Live Image Action Time (mm:ss) Partition Name ------------------ ------ ------------ ------------------------------- 0.19.0-beta1-2 A 0:06 /dev/md126p1 0.19.0-beta1-3 A 0:01 /dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 0.19.0-beta1-2 B 5:35 /dev/md126p1 0.19.0-beta1-3 B 0:10 /dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 These tests are on my primary computer that contains five drives and almost as many operating system installations. As can be seen from the results, the operations on mdadm partitions are slower than dmraid partitions. > I'm curious, do you run into the same problem running debian? Because > it's gparted build does have --enable-libparted-dmraid ( because it is > now identical to Ubuntu's ). My testing of Debian has been within Virtual Machines. The only testing I've done directly on bare metal is with Live images (CDs or USB flash drives). The above test with the GParted Live image should be representative of Debian SID. Which Debian live image version would you like me to test? Regards, Curtis |
From: Phillip S. <ps...@ub...> - 2014-06-09 17:35:37
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/9/2014 12:27 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote: | I agree that this finding is unexpected. Following are some timings | using my Intel software RAID that contains two 160 GB SATA drives. | | Action A: Shrink (not move) empty ext4 partition from 40 GiB to 20 GiB. | Action B: Grow (not move) empty ext4 partition from 20 GiB to 40 GiB. | | GParted Live Image Action Time (mm:ss) Partition Name | ------------------ ------ ------------ ------------------------------- | 0.19.0-beta1-2 A 0:06 /dev/md126p1 | 0.19.0-beta1-3 A 0:01 /dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 | 0.19.0-beta1-2 B 5:35 /dev/md126p1 | 0.19.0-beta1-3 B 0:10 /dev/mapper/isw_efjbbijhh_Vol01 | | These tests are on my primary computer that contains five drives and | almost as many operating system installations. As can be seen from the | results, the operations on mdadm partitions are slower than dmraid | partitions. I wonder... can you look in the /sys/block entries corresponding to the devices and see if their queue/optimal_io_size values differ? Also can you show mdadm -D /dev/md126? | My testing of Debian has been within Virtual Machines. The only testing | I've done directly on bare metal is with Live images (CDs or USB flash | drives). The above test with the GParted Live image should be | representative of Debian SID. | | Which Debian live image version would you like me to test? I don't think they maintain a live sid image, so I suppose testing of the gparted iso will serve as a proxy. You might try installing the build of gparted from sid and check that. Also are you sure that the devices were named Vol01 and not Vol0p1 before running gparted? I remember at one point we had the problem where the system made 0p1 and running gparted would make a duplicate 01 device. I'm working now on getting the dmraid and kpartx changes merged into debian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTlfBhAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwrdcH/jnQuzKrsdBUqVNcMH+tPza5 OdawdWaGfmrOV/VI67iIFu90rlF4pcSmpLn9YMpcZRNErf5YbOwxp6iwPDzc2aF7 vWKeTezMQfeMqS+tAXa0asEdhXBC+unF4VaQS3HFCKwd/GzLeAp3gXq9S/wR7lHh YkjXxgZqM2nNsiJIvw0ZQWand6Sju2o4dIy3cKDSlezFN9YC2JFTdAoHsuXjmkEy FBldPISlCdz1hgELEnjC8Or19THFK8tOHhNb/5XBCG6lo4ThlieMZOJ+8x4jyP2P LlF7+4OMp/vj2AGAxOMzlYxkvHLdfc+Vny8drSO9ww2QE8EuIScYAVbeFDwqeTI= =E6Rw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |