[H-GEN] Mega documentation and distro server. Was: Idea for journalling filesystems

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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David Seikel <won_fang at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> Jason Parker-Burlingham <jasonp at panix.com> wrote: 
>> David Seikel <won_fang at yahoo.com.au> writes:
>> > The file server I drag to HUMBUG meetings is now a mega distro server
>> > AND a mega documentation server.
>> Is the server online somewhere when it's not at HUMBUG meetings?  I am
>> never at meetings these days---it's the small matter of a 15hr+ flight
>> that keeps me away---but I'm always online.
> When it is not at HUMBUG it is at home, where I have no net connection. 
> Even if I had a net connection, I doubt if I could afford to make all this
> data available to the public.

Fair enough.

Is it unkind of me to enquire about your sources, then?  Googling
reveals a veritable dearth of solid information on how to recover data
from damaged filesystems.

> If I can strap my server to my back and walk for 6 hours to get to
> and from HUMBUG meetings, you can damn well make the effort of
> sitting in a comfy plane for 15 B-).

Oh, if only the plane *was* comfy.  Have you ever flown anywhere?

As regards lugging computers around on backs:  you have my
sympathies.  That's no fun.

>> I'm also curious to know what you're using to make it searchable:
> Whatever SuSE 8.2 uses for its doc server search engine.  I suspect it is
> htdig.  Gotta love SuSE 8.2, point and click gets most things done.

Hmm.  Right now grep -ri does a credible job.  Actually that raises an
interesting question for Greg Black---Greg, how do you go about doing
recursive greps?  If I remember correctly you eschew nonstandard
options such as (I assume) -r.  I've never found a particularly
compelling find+grep combination.

(Actually this raises the question of if you have a good source for
which options you consider standard and which you don't.)

((Why, yes, I *am* starting to have to deal with a number of systems
with non-fancy or just plain broken tools, why do you ask?))

jason
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