Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
Hello Tim, On 06/24/2015 07:42 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes to socket [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: write failed on "/opt/var/log/lastlog": No space left on device (28) lastlog is a VERY large SPARSE file and when you rsync it it looses the spar

Re: [CentOS] yum and yumex change system time

2015-06-24 Thread g
On 06/23/2015 08:25 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: <<>> > Edit the file: > > /etc/sysconfig/clock > > make sure to set: > > ZONE="America/Chicago" it was; ZONE="Etc/UTC" it is now. ZONE="America/Chicago" > then copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago to /etc/localtime done. > Run the time

Re: [CentOS] PXE question

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | I was wondering, where is the format and options of files like | /usr/share/system-config-netboot/pxelinux.cfg/default from | system-config-netboot-cmd described? There are plenty of PXE tutorials | with examples out there, but nothing that looks like actual | documen

[CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hello All, I seem to have run into a bug with the new --bridgeslaves= option. It would seem that if I tell the bridge device to use a virtual interface (like bond0) rather than a physical interface (em1/em2) that kickstart completely barfs on it. I have provided my network section below which

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 10:40:59 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > > For concreteness, let's say I have a guest machine, with a > > dedicated physical partition for it, on a single drive. Or, I have > > the same thing, only the dedicated partition is in

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:06:30 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > >> Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm > >> sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the > >> h

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Chuck Campbell
On 6/24/2015 1:06 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm >>> sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the >>> hardware has a certain phys

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/24/2015 12:35 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Interesting. I wasn't aware that LVM had that option. I've been looking at bcache and dm-cache. I'll have to look into that as well. heh. LVM cache *is* dm-cache. Don't I feel silly. ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/24/2015 12:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: LVM snapshots make it easy to get point-in-time consistent backups, including databases. For example, with MySQL, you can freeze and flush all the databases, snapshot the LV, and release the freeze. Exactly. And I mention this from time to time... I'

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/24/2015 09:42 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> And for some reason when the servers were ordered the large >> local volume ended up being /usr when the ES rpm likes to >> store it's indexes on /var. >> >> So I'm syncing the contents of both directories to a different place, >>

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Jason Warr
On 6/24/2015 2:06 PM, Chris Adams wrote: Once upon a time, m.r...@5-cent.us said: Here's a question: all of the arguments you're giving have to do with VMs. Do you have some for straight-on-the-server, non-VM cases? I've used LVM on servers with hot-swap drives to migrate to new storage with

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, m.r...@5-cent.us said: > Here's a question: all of the arguments you're giving have to do with VMs. > Do you have some for straight-on-the-server, non-VM cases? I've used LVM on servers with hot-swap drives to migrate to new storage without downtime a number of times. Add new d

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/24/2015 11:06 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Here's a question: all of the arguments you're giving have to do with VMs. Do you have some for straight-on-the-server, non-VM cases? Marko sent two messages and suggested that we keep the VM performance question as a reply to that one. My reply

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/24/2015 09:42 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: And for some reason when the servers were ordered the large local volume ended up being /usr when the ES rpm likes to store it's indexes on /var. So I'm syncing the contents of both directories to a different place, and I'm going swap the large local vol

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm >> sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the >> hardware has a certain physical speed, regardless of the presence of >> LVM. Wh

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/23/2015 09:00 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:08:24 -0700 Gordon Messmer wrote: 1) LVM makes MBR and GPT systems more consistent with each other, reducing the probability of a bug that affects only one. 2) LVM also makes RAID and non-RAID systems more consistent with eac

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Александр Кириллов
Does anyone have a good guess as to why these 'out of space' failures are occurring? Probaly sparse files or hard links? Try # rsync -aHASWXv --delete src/ dst/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/23/2015 08:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Ok, you made me curious. Just how dramatic can it be? From where I'm sitting, a read/write to a disk takes the amount of time it takes, the hardware has a certain physical speed, regardless of the presence of LVM. What am I missing? Well, there's b

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey Carl, Hi Tim, > At first glance, I don't see anything obvious, but if it were me, I'd > do the following: > a) add the 'n' flag to do a dry run (no actual copying) > b) increase rsync's verbosity >(A single -v will give you information about what files are being >transferred and a bri

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:42:19 -0400 Tim Dunphy wrote: > how come I am running out of space in doing my rsync? Are you running out of room for file and directory names, which is a different thing than simple free disk space? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.c

Re: [CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Carl E. Hartung
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 12:42:19 -0400 Tim Dunphy wrote: > Does anyone have a good guess as to why these 'out of space' failures > are occurring? Hi Tim, At first glance, I don't see anything obvious, but if it were me, I'd do the following: a) add the 'n' flag to do a dry run (no actual copying)

[CentOS] rsyncing directories - sanity check

2015-06-24 Thread Tim Dunphy
hey guys, I need to mount a different volume onto /var so we have more room to breathe. I'll be turning 3 servers into an elasticsearch cluster. And for some reason when the servers were ordered the large local volume ended up being /usr when the ES rpm likes to store it's indexes on /var. So I'

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 24 Jun 2015 04:10:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:42:13 -0700 > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > I wondered the same thing, especially in the context of someone who > > prefers virtual machines. LV-backed VMs have *dramatically* better > > disk performanc

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, John R Pierce wrote: While it has the same concepts, physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, the LVM in AIX shares only the initials with Linux. I've heard that Linux's LVM was based on HP-UX's design. Sure, and IRIX had a similar concept, although my experience

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-24 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Marko Vojinovic said: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:42:13 -0700 > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > I wondered the same thing, especially in the context of someone who > > prefers virtual machines. LV-backed VMs have *dramatically* better > > disk performance than file-backed VMs. > > Ok,

Re: [CentOS] Problem with todays update and fence-agents-all

2015-06-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/24/2015 06:31 AM, Gerald Vogt wrote: > Hi all! > > I add another problem with todays updates: > > Error: Package: fence-agents-all-4.0.11-13.el7_1.x86_64 > (centos7-x86_64-updates) >Requires: fence-agents-compute > > > fence-agents-compute seems to be missing. > > Thanks, >

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 124, Issue 12

2015-06-24 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] POSTMORTEM: Re: OT: default password for HP printer

2015-06-24 Thread ken
On 06/23/2015 03:52 PM, g wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:14 PM, ken wrote: On 06/23/2015 11:49 AM, g wrote: hello Ken, am i correct to presume that you are getting the "Bcc:" of my post to the fedora list? g, I'm already subscribed to that list, so you needn't bcc me. I've read your post there

[CentOS] Problem with todays update and fence-agents-all

2015-06-24 Thread Gerald Vogt
Hi all! I add another problem with todays updates: Error: Package: fence-agents-all-4.0.11-13.el7_1.x86_64 (centos7-x86_64-updates) Requires: fence-agents-compute fence-agents-compute seems to be missing. Thanks, Gerald ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Problem with todays update and ntpdate

2015-06-24 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 06/24/2015 05:51 AM, Nux! wrote: > Yes, it is a "known" issue, I'm sure it's going to get fixed ASAP. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > - Original Message - >> From: "Kai Bojens" >> To: "CentOS mailing list" >> Sent: Wednesday, 24

[CentOS] Centos7.1 : Firefox-language problem is fixed

2015-06-24 Thread johan . vermeulen7
Hello, I somehow missed the announcement, but I just updated and Firefox 38.0.1 put me back to Dutch. ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221286 ) greetings, Johan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] Problem with todays update and ntpdate

2015-06-24 Thread Nux!
Yes, it is a "known" issue, I'm sure it's going to get fixed ASAP. -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro - Original Message - > From: "Kai Bojens" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Wednesday, 24 June, 2015 10:48:22 > Subject: [CentOS] Problem with tod

[CentOS] Problem with todays update and ntpdate

2015-06-24 Thread Kai Bojens
Hello everybody, I just tried to run 'yum update' and got this error: Error: Package: ntp-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 (@updates) Requires: ntpdate = 4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos Removing: ntpdate-4.2.6p5-19.el7.centos.x86_64 (@updates)