Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Monday 04 October 2010 12:35, Mark wrote: > I'll probably put LO beta on my laptop and play with it a little > before I decide. There is a caveat that LO might install over OO in > this beta, but future releases won't. The warning that LibreOffice overwrites OpenOffice only applies to Window

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Miguel Medalha
> The defaults are determined by /etc/mke2fs.conf. If you've modified or > removed that file, mkfs.ext4 will behave differently On my CentOS 5.5 systems, defaults for ext4 reside on "/etc/mke4fs.conf". ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/04/2010 02:52 PM, Steve Brooks wrote: > The really odd thing here > is that on another raid disk created the "exact" same way with the exact > same parameters to "mkfs" and identically mounted I have an EXT4 > filesystem with different attributes, see below. Surely that should not > happen.

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Miguel Medalha wrote: > >> I was just a little worried at the response from Brent earlier quote >> "Don't play Russian Roulette and use ext4."  . > > Maybe he was referring to some old information dating back to the > development period. > > ext4 has been declared

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I was just a little worried at the response from Brent earlier quote > "Don't play Russian Roulette and use ext4." . Maybe he was referring to some old information dating back to the development period. ext4 has been declared stable by the kernel people. As a matter of fact it is now the d

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Mike Hanby
As a test, I just created an ext4 file system using the defaults, i.e. 'mkfs.ext4 -L test1 /dev/sdb1' and it has the following features, how did your's get so lean: Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_fi

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Brooks
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, Miguel Medalha wrote: > >> Filesystem state: not clean >> > > You should really look at that line and at why it is there. Thanks again Miguel, Yep I have mounted the filesystems as read only for the time being. I am inclined to move the data and rebuild the filesys

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi Miguel, Thanks for the reply. > "What people are saying"? So instead of understanding and solving some issue I was just a little worried at the response from Brent earlier quote "Don't play Russian Roulette and use ext4." . The really odd thing here is that on another raid disk created th

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Filesystem state: not clean > You should really look at that line and at why it is there. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Below is the output from "tune4fs". From what people are saying it > looks like et4 may not be the way to go. > "What people are saying"? So instead of understanding and solving some issue you just jump wagon, maybe only to find some other issue there? ext4 is stable and works perfectly. You

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi, Below is the output from "tune4fs". From what people are saying it looks like et4 may not be the way to go. [r...@sraid3 ~]# tune4fs -l /dev/sdb tune4fs 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) Filesystem volume name: Last mounted on: /sraid3/sraid3 Filesystem UUID: adc08889-f6a9-47c6-a570

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread James Bensley
On 4 October 2010 20:07, Steve Brooks wrote: > both are 11T and so I would prefer as much stability as possible, io > performance is not an issue on either device just integrity so I thought > the journal would be default and necessary. > > Any thoughts would be much appreciated. > My two pence w

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread John Hammer
> Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to > continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have > any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area > - OpenOffice or LibreOffice? > > I know that LibreOffice is not production ready y

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Miguel Medalha
Can you give us the output of "tune4fs -l /dev/sdb" ? Does it show " has_journal" under "Filesystem features"? If it doesn't, you can input the following: tune4fs -o journal_data The option "journal_data" fits the case in which you don't care about the fastest speed but you put your focus on

[CentOS] Python resource module returns just zeros

2010-10-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I'm using a call to the resource module's getrusage method. On openSUSE this works, on CentOS [python26-2.6.5-3.el5] it 'works' but just returns zeros for the memory utilization values. resource.getrusage(resource.RUSAGE_SELF).ru_maxrss openSUSE: returns 5512 CentOS: returns 0 Anyone know wha

[CentOS] EXT4 mount issue

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Brooks
Hi All, When a couple of EXT4 filesystems are mounted in a server I get the message Oct 1 18:49:42 sraid3 kernel: EXT4-fs (sdb): mounted filesystem without journal Oct 1 18:49:42 sraid3 kernel: EXT4-fs (sdc): mounted filesystem without journal in the system logs. My confusion is why are they

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to moveto2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> > > > BINGO!  Only one time did the word 'title' appear in his grub.conf. Well ... Only once did it appear on the left margin as the start-of-line. Thanks, M$ Outlook, for deciding how to format the message. So the rest of the surmising was based on a false reading. Sorry folks. > grub

[CentOS] kernel.org kernel in CentOS respin.

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Clark
Hello List, I found these wonderful instruction by Alan Bartlett (thanks Alan) for building a kernel.org kernel that would install on CentOS 5.5. Doing this and moving the resulting .rpm to the target system and doing a rpm -ivh ... works great. Now I am trying to use the same rpm as part of a

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread m . roth
Mark wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Brunner, Brian T. > wrote: >> >> BINGO!  Only one time did the word 'title' appear in his grub.conf. >> >> So I looked at the LAST not FIRST 'kernel' line after 'title' and noted >> that the 'kernel' info there matched what actually booted. >> >> I sur

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Scott Robbins
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:35:46AM -0700, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, John Kennedy wrote: > > > : > > Once it hits beta, I will install it to see how it goes. > Quote from Distrowatch: "The Document Foundation is a newly founded organisation with a mission - to make an office

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Mark
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:26 AM, John Kennedy wrote: > : > Once it hits beta, I will install it to see how it goes. It's in beta right now, but I think the beta is the same as OO 3.3 beta - they haven't progressed past the next release, which is common to both Oracle and the DF. I'll probably put

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread Mark
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > > BINGO!  Only one time did the word 'title' appear in his grub.conf. > > So I looked at the LAST not FIRST 'kernel' line after 'title' and noted > that the 'kernel' info there matched what actually booted. > > I surmise that grub reads th

Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread John Kennedy
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:20, Mark wrote: > Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to > continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have > any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area > - OpenOffice or LibreOffice? > > I know

[CentOS] OpenOffice or LibreOffice?

2010-10-04 Thread Mark
Given that the Document Foundation has now split away from Oracle to continue the development of an independent office suite, do we have any idea which was CentOS and Red Hat are planning to go in this area - OpenOffice or LibreOffice? I know that LibreOffice is not production ready yet - they onl

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread John Doe
From: "Brunner, Brian T." > > I can't tell if someone's email has run the lines together. The > > first entry has to be > > >> title CentOS (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5) > > >> root (hd0,0) > > >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 ro root=/dev/md1 > > >> initrd /initrd-2.6.

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> I can't tell if someone's email has run the lines together. The > first entry has to be > >> title CentOS (2.6.18-194.17.1.el5) > >> root (hd0,0) > >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 ro root=/dev/md1 > >> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.img > with the next "titl

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread m . roth
Brunner, Brian T. wrote: >> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Aleksey Tsalolikhin >> >> Hi. I just noticed I had a CentOS 5.3 system that I updated to CentOS >> 5.5 a few days ago, and I just ran "yum -y update" again to get the latest >> kernel, and I just noticed it still has the o

Re: [CentOS] Format details for a raid partition....

2010-10-04 Thread John Doe
From: Tom Bishop >So I have been playing with a RAID 10 f2 ( 2 disks far layout) setup...thanks >for all of the advice..Now I am playing with the format and want to make sure >I >have it setup the best that I can, my raid was built using the raid 10 option >with 2 disks with the layout=far, c

Re: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

2010-10-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Aleksey Tsalolikhin > Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 1:17 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how > to move to2.6.18-194.17? > >

Re: [CentOS] sata AHCI controllers (real and virtual)

2010-10-04 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:53:17 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I saw something somewhere about AHCI support requiring kernel 2.6.19 or later. > But the current CentOS/RHEL stable kernels are 2.6.18 Drivers, etc. are back ported. > > I'm trying to run CentOS/RHEL in a VirtualBox vm, which b

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-04 Thread James Pearson
Iain Morris wrote: > > And NIS servers belong in a museum! :-) Although NIS has a number of issues against it - it still has some pretty good things going for it. If you are on a private network and security is not a high priority, then NIS is something that can be easily set up. Some of the

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-04 Thread Stephen Harris
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:28:23PM +0100, James Pearson wrote: > easily set up. Some of the nice things about NIS on Linux are: > > It is fairly simple to set up > Comes with built in server redundancy and failover > Has simple server load balancing built in > Very lightweight on the client It's

Re: [CentOS] sata AHCI controllers (real and virtual)

2010-10-04 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 08:53:17PM -0600, drew einhorn wrote: > I saw something somewhere about AHCI support requiring kernel 2.6.19 or later. > But the current CentOS/RHEL stable kernels are 2.6.18 > RHEL/CentOS 2.6.18 kernel is very far from kernel.org/upstream 2.6.18. RHEL/CentOS 2.6.18 kernel

Re: [CentOS] best filesystem for a webserver

2010-10-04 Thread Евгений Килимчук
Hello! You can look at xfs: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ I think this benchmarks help you: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks&num=2 I use this file system for MySQL with a big DB on Software RAID. This file system shows good perfomance for small files. 2010/10/