Re: [CentOS] GPT Partitions >2.2T with Centos 5.5

2010-07-15 Thread Jens Neu
> Do you see the slow behaviour (10 MiB/s) for all of the device or only for the > part that is >2T? > > Why use a partition table at all? run dd directly against the device. If this > is slow then you have a controller side problem. very true, back to "Go" :( Peter Kjellstrom Sent by:

Re: [CentOS] GPT Partitions >2.2T with Centos 5.5

2010-07-14 Thread Jens Neu
> I think ext3 is a bit slow on so big LUNS, try xfs or similar? there is no official support for xfs in RHEL5, so that is not an option. Besides, I'm talking about a drop of >150mb/s to ~10mb/s read performance when cracking the 2.2T size. This is clearly not in the ext3 (or FS for that matter

[CentOS] GPT Partitions >2.2T with Centos 5.5

2010-07-14 Thread Jens Neu
Dear all, unfortunately I observe drastic drops in read- performance when I connect LUNs >2.2T to our Centos 5.5 Servers. I suspect issues with the GUID Partition Table, since it happens reproducibly only on the LUNs >2.2T and goes back to normal performance when using a LUN <2T with "normal",

Re: [CentOS] Running yum shows errors

2010-07-14 Thread Jens Neu
Hi, Did you try to disable the mirror selection and specify one single repo? -Jens - Originalnachricht - Von: Jatin Davey [jasho...@cisco.com] Gesendet: 14.07.2010 11:03 ZE5B An: centos@centos.org Betreff: [CentOS] Running yum shows errors Hi I am getting the following errors when

Re: [CentOS] IBM ServeRAID M5014 and CentOS 5.5

2010-06-15 Thread Jens Neu
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/technotes/tips0738.pdf clearly states Support for RHEL 4 as well as 5, so you should have no problem with CentOS 5.5. regards Jens Neu Peter Hinse Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org 06/15/2010 01:46 PM Please respond to CentOS mailing list To CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-04 Thread Jens Neu
/PackageManagement/Spacewalk regards Jens Neu Health Services Network Administration Zhihao Lou Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org 06/04/2010 05:28 AM Please respond to CentOS mailing list To centos@centos.org cc Subject [CentOS] Package Distribution Server? Dear List, I'm tryi

[CentOS] SUN Storage 7310 with RHEL 5.5 / Centos 5.5 and multipathed root, again.

2010-06-03 Thread Jens Neu
up in the FC Zoning. This smells like broken mkinitrd to me. System is very up-to-date, Centos 5.5 Version below: [r...@dev-db3 ~]# yum list device-mapper-multipath Installed Packages device-mapper-multipath.x86_640.4.7-34.el5_5.1installed [r...@dev-db3 ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 Any

Re: [CentOS] Multipathing with Sun 7310

2010-05-31 Thread Jens Neu
Alexander, thank you very much, you're the man! best regards from Berlin Jens Neu Health Services Network Administration "Alexander Dalloz" Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org 05/28/2010 04:29 PM Please respond to CentOS mailing list To "CentOS mailing list"

Re: [CentOS] Multipathing with Sun 7310

2010-05-27 Thread Jens Neu
led. C9 Inquiry of device failed. mpath0 (3600144f0fdf58b5c4bc738070001) dm-0 SUN,Sun Storage 7310 [size=50G][features=1 queue_if_no_path][hwhandler=0][rw] \_ round-robin 0 [prio=0][active] \_ 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 [active][ready] \_ 1:0:0:0 sde 8:64 [active][ready] however, the system "lives

[CentOS] Multipathing with Sun 7310

2010-05-27 Thread Jens Neu
Dear list, we have a relatively new Sun Storage 7310, where we connect CentOS 5.5 Servers (IBM LS21/LS41 Blades) via Brocade Switches, 4GBit FC. The Blades boot from SAN via qla2xxx, and have no harddisks at all. We want them to use multipathing from the very beginning, so /boot and / are alrea