[arch-general] 2 recommendations needed for installing ArchLinux

[C Anthony Risinger]

C Anthony
On Dec 6, 2011 8:48 AM, "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arch-general-bounces at archlinux.org on behalf of Nicolás Adamo
> Sent: Tue 12/6/2011 15:24
>
> Man, since ext4 was born, all I heard about it was good...
> Regarding data integrity:
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ext4-data-loss-explanations-and-workarounds-740671.html
>
> +++
>
> Hi Nicolás :)
>
> I still try to recover the data and I'll read all links. Thank you.
>
> ---
>
> But my advice is to mount a RAID arrange. That would be bulletproof.
>
> +++
>
> RAID for a DAW means much devices = too much noise for a home studio.
> I should have made backups to 2 devices and only one backup device should
> be mounted when working. If I rm files by a RAID, what would be different?
>
> ---
>
> http://www.musix.org.ar/en/index.html
>
> +++
>
> I suspect that for my needs a distro would be useful, that allows me to
> configure my DAW for my needs and then has less tendencies to break things
> when installing upgrades.
> Prebuilt DAWs don't fit to my needs. Well known major distros tend to
> become more worse than I heard about Windows tend to be. A harmless
> example, I don't like to be forced to use PulseAudio. Debian testing
> doesn't, but after a while they tried, so I needed to build dummy packages.
> There are much more worse things, but I won't spoil the list with this
> issues.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ralf
>