Re: [CentOS] i am not qble to install centos 6

On 07/28/11 23:14, sridhar sri wrote: > Hi CentOS Team, > i am not able to install CentOS 6.0 , while > installing > > 1) Insert your CentOS 6.0 installation DVD into DVD drive > 2) In the pre-boot phase ofsystem startup > pre

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS clustering and Support.

On 04/01/11 11:56, Kumar, Ranjan wrote: > Hi, > > We are a Channel product team within LSI and we are trying to add Cent OS 5.5 > to our compatibility Matrix. We found out that LSI currently has a > relationship with CentOS for another project on the Internal Storage division > but not with the

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization platform choice

On 03/27/11 11:57, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Some may be bored with the subject - sorry... > > Still not decided about virtualization platform for my "webhotel v2" > (ns, mail, web servers, etc.). > > KVM would be a natural way to go, I suppose, only it is too bad CentOS 6 > will not be out in time for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

On 03/09/11 16:55, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I need to do a new CentOS net install on a new server having the > Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard: > >http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon1333/5000V/X7DVL-3.cfm > > Based on that info I assume the board having a "8x SAS Ports via LSI > 1

Re: [CentOS] Fan speed control on Supermicro X8DAL board with CentOS

On 02/06/11 18:48, Ned Slider wrote: > > You're welcome Chuck. > > Your question prompted me to update the elrepo kmod-w83627ehf driver > package to the latest upstream source (kernel-2.6.37): > > http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2011-February/000488.html > > By all means give that package

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5.5 64 bit issues

On 12/13/10 16:01, benedict dcunha wrote: > Dear All, > We have a new SUN BLADE X6270 SERVER MODULES and i am trying to install > centos 5.5 64 bit . the installations starts fine but when it reaches the > point inialthe X server it says initialization done but then gives a fatal > error and sto

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

> In one instance we need to host virtual machines, so we don't need > anything fancy. I'm happy with running iSCSI / NFS and even AOE. > Currently we have a few 2U SuperMicro servers with 24bays, running > OpenFiler. But, OpenFiler is outdated and limited when it comes to > scalability. Ideally,

Re: [CentOS] ntfs

On 12/05/10 19:22, Ritika Garg wrote: > CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package > kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm > I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from the > hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk. > > >

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Seeing as IPV4 is near it's end of life > (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), > I'm curios as who know whether everyone is ready for the changeover to > IPV6? > > Is anyone using it in production already, and w

Re: [CentOS] # chkconfig: kill at run level 3

On 12/04/10 21:42, Michael D. Berger wrote: > On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:25:47 +, Keith Roberts wrote: > > [...] >> >> Please see this old SuSE documentation for a good description of the >> Linux boot process: >> >> http://linuxmafia.com/linux/suse-linux-internals/part2.html >> > [...] > > Will th

Re: [CentOS] yum-complete-transaction

On 12/04/10 18:00, Johan Scheepers wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On 12/4/10 4:20 AM, Johan Scheepers wrote: >>> Good day, >>> >>> Some yum instructions I do not know. >>> Kindly some pointers please. >>> >>> There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running >>> yum-complete-

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

On 11/17/10 19:22, Joe Pruett wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Have anyone used both XEN& KVM before? What are your experiences >>> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >>> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >>> hate

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

On 11/12/10 23:34, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > What's the best (cleanest, easiest, whatever) way to install the proprietary > NVidia driver on CentOS 5.5 ? Usually I'm using the RPMForge 3rd party repo > and compile the odd missing package myself from a Fedora SRPM. But the nvidia > packages lo

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

On 11/11/10 16:39, Toralf Lund wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> On 11/11/10 16:25, Toralf Lund wrote: >> >>> RedShift wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/11/10 14:22, Toralf Lund wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> I'm trying to install Ce

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

On 11/11/10 16:25, Toralf Lund wrote: > RedShift wrote: >> On 11/11/10 14:22, Toralf Lund wrote: >> >>> I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM >>> System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install >&

Re: [CentOS] Boot failure after install on IBM x3550 M3

On 11/11/10 14:22, Toralf Lund wrote: > I'm trying to install CentOS 5.5 on a couple of servers of type IBM > System x3550 M3, but it's not going too well. Actually, the install > setup phase runs as expected, and the actual installation also appears > to be successful, but the system will not boot

Re: [CentOS] httpd RPM newer than 2.0.63 avail for CentOS 4.x?

On 11/07/10 06:17, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote: > I'm maintaining an internet-facing web server which is now running httpd > 2.0.63 (httpd-2.0.63-2.el4s1.centos.2) which is now neary 2.5 years > old(!?!). I need to move to either 2.0.64 or 2.2.12 or later. However, > I've been unable to find availa

Re: [CentOS] "Semi-Authoritative" DNS?

On 11/05/10 16:54, Tim Nelson wrote: > Greetings All- > > I have an odd need for a 'semi-authoritative' DNS server. Let's say I have a > zone for 'domain.com' with public DNS servers. However, I wanted to run an > internal DNS server for internal things. Public resolution of > 'www.domain.com' w

Re: [CentOS] Copying root partition

On 11/04/10 12:56, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> On 11/04/10 4:28 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I recently transferred the / partition on my CentOS server >>> from a small disk to a large disk, using "rsync -auvz". >>> >>> This works fine, except that I get dozens of selinux

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

On 11/03/10 19:57, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> SMART reports the number of sectors that have been reallocated. That >> means, the drive was writing to a sector, found out it was unreliable and >> decided to remap that sector. It is not abnormal for drives to develop _a >> few_ bad sectors over the

Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes

On 11/03/10 17:01, Keith Roberts wrote: > > There were no sectors remapped, which is odd as there were > bad sectors originally on the drive. I ran MemTest86+ out of > curiousity, and there are 5120 Errors, some at 0.4MB& 0.5 > MB. > You should fix that first. > The BIOS has been playing up, not

Re: [CentOS] was, PATA Hard Drive woes, is "SMART"

On 11/03/10 19:04, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon: >> >> More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :) >> >> It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot. >> >>>

Re: [CentOS] chroot from 32-bit to 64-bit filesystem?

On 10/20/10 19:23, Scott Johnson wrote: > I have a 32-bit PXE environment and I want to chroot to a CentOS x64 root > filesystem. Of course that doesn't work. Any tricks or hacks that would > allow me to do that? Currently I get the error: > > chroot: /bin/bash: Exec format error > > What if

Re: [CentOS] securing centos 5.2 for public usage

On 09/18/10 12:08, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Dear all, > > i Just finished setting up an apache service on a centos 5.2 VM machine. > > i need to secure this machine as i'm soon to be setting a public IP over it > where i'd be opening up the following services: > > > 1. http > 2. https > 3. ssh > >

Re: [CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

On 06/25/10 22:48, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Miguel Medalha wrote: >>> I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to >>> samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become >>> gibberish on the windows client. >> Since Window

[CentOS] Samba and " (and maybe other characters) in paths/files

Hello I have samba installed on my server, with a fileshare. When connecting to samba, using windows, filesnames with " (double quotes) in them become gibberish on the windows client. Under linux I connect to these fileshares using NFS, and the names are correct (I also created them this way)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

On 04/16/10 15:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to > CentOS5, > but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any > version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or

[CentOS] Tiny webserver to run as root

Hi all Does anyone have a suggestion for some software, a tiny webserver that is able to run as root and execute CGI scripts? It should be smaller than apache and preferably even smaller than lighttpd. It doesn't need a whole lot of features, it only needs to be able to execute CGI scripts. I

Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

On 12/20/09 16:22, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Timo Schoeler wrote: What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out there. Maybe NetBSD with pf is the best choice? >>> NetBSD is a very nice OS, I personally like it most (out of all BSD

Re: [CentOS] /etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check

Jancio Wodnik wrote: > W dniu 30.11.2009 14:08, Farkas Levente pisze: >> hi, >> it's been a few weeks since rhel/centos 5.4 released and there were many >> discussion about this new "feature" the weekly raid partition check. >> we've got a lot's of server with raid1 system and i already try to >> c

Re: [CentOS] install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???

Tait Clarridge wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 14:47 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote: >>> I just download CENTOS 5.4 DVD ISO X86_64 version from internet. I tried >>> to install it on DELL server and get following error message before RPM >>> start install: >>> >>>parted_1.8.1-23.els.x86_64.rpm can N

Re: [CentOS] Automatical resync of MD, why?

happymaster23 wrote: > Hello, > > I have three MDs on two HDDs in RAID 1. In last days, thanks to my > monitoring (which is installed longer time), I have recognized, that > one of these MDs is automatically started resync. First was at 25th > October and second resync of the same MD was today. It

Re: [CentOS] mismatch_cnt after 5.3 -> 5.4 upgrade

Devin Reade wrote: > Saturday I did an upgrade from 5.3 (original install) to 5.4. Saturday > night, /etc/cron.weekly reported the following: > >/etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check: > >WARNING: mismatch_cnt is not 0 on /dev/md0 > > md0 holds /boot and resides, mirrored, on sda1 and s

Re: [CentOS] kvm package difference - v36 via yum, v83 via DVD

Brian Schueler wrote: > Hi! > > As far as I can see there is no kvm in the base repository but > the older version 36 in CentOS-Extras. Version 83 that belongs > to 5.4 is only found on the install DVD and CD-Set. > So it's different when installing kvm later with yum which results > in kvm-36 tha

Re: [CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

Dave Stevens wrote: > Hello All, > > In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS > (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as > RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment > guide on raid setup and it seems to cover the b

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

David Suhendrik wrote: > may be rsync help You > Or u can try raid 0[mirrorig] > for replicate failover triying drbd and heartbeat but I've tested and > unsuccessfull on my zimbra machines > > RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. I repeat. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. Nor is replication. Best regards, Glenn __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell >> wrote: >>> It's not fun on the other side of this fence either. Being kept in >>> the >>> dark makes you imagine all sorts of scary things. >> Oh give me a break. The CentOS developers have consistently released a

Re: [CentOS] Failing Hard Disk?

Stewart Williams wrote: > Hi All, > > I am fairly certain that this disk is failing in my server, and I am > replacing it straight away anyway. > > However, I'd appreciate the views of the list just to be sure as I value > your opinion(s). > Your disk has failed. Replace it. Glenn ___

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation

ML wrote: > HI All, > > So I have 5 1U servers (running Windows) that have Ultra 320 SCSI > Drives in them. > > The owner of these boxes wants the drives captured in their current > states to .iso or .cdr or something where if the need arises the data > can be viewed, used again, etc. > >

[CentOS] Request for hpacucli output from people running HP Smart Array controllers

Hello all I'm gathering the output of the hpacucli program from as much configurations as possible. If you can find some free time for me, can you send me the output of: hpacucli ctrl all show detail hpacucli ctrl slot=1 show config hpacucli ctrl slot=1 array all show hpacucli ctrl slot=1 arra

[CentOS] RPM complaining it needs .so files, while these are actually present

Hello When I try to install a package I built myself (java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64.rpm - took the java-1.6.0 srpm from jpackage and bumped the version number), it complains: Error: Missing Dependency: libodbcinst.so()(64bit) is needed by package java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.16-1jpp.x86_64 (jav

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > Yes, I changed the variable in the spec and installed the RPM I built. > I am on a 64-bit machine but did not install a 32-bit RPM. > > Looks like there are two versions.. the original and mine. What should > I do? > > Requested output: > > [r...@localhost ~]$ rpm -qi

Re: [CentOS] my fonts look horrible (centos5.3/xfce)

Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't seem to get my fonts to look decent under CentOS. I was able to > make them look pretty good under Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't > make them look decent on CentOS. > > Screenshots: > http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8563/ss1rzo.jpg > http://

Re: [CentOS] Using Thunderbird as local mail reader

Kristopher Kane wrote: > What do you mean locally? Is your mailbox stored on the same system > you use daily or do you mean it is on a server on your subnet? The OP probably means reading a local maildir/mbox. As far as I know it's not possible to read maildirs/mbox's using thunderbird. Kmail K

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

Hello Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: > >> On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. >>> Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something >>> b

Re: [CentOS] Building tomcat6, SRPM jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1-7jpp.ep1.2.ep5.el5.src.rpm fails to build

RedShift wrote: > Filipe Brandenburger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 13:56, RedShift wrote: >>> I've installed the JDK 1.5 and used alternatives --config java to use the >>> 1.5 JDK from Sun. However, the same compilation error still occu

Re: [CentOS] Building tomcat6, SRPM jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1-7jpp.ep1.2.ep5.el5.src.rpm fails to build

Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 13:56, RedShift wrote: >> I've installed the JDK 1.5 and used alternatives --config java to use the >> 1.5 JDK from Sun. However, the same compilation error still occurs. How do I >> tell rpmbuild

Re: [CentOS] Building tomcat6, SRPM jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1-7jpp.ep1.2.ep5.el5.src.rpm fails to build

Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25, RedShift wrote: >> I have found a few references on the errors with some conclusive information >> on the tomcat mailinglist [4], stating that dbcp won't build with a java 6 >> compiler. >>

[CentOS] Building tomcat6, SRPM jakarta-commons-dbcp-1.2.1-7jpp.ep1.2.ep5.el5.src.rpm fails to build

Hello all I'm trying to build tomcat6 from the SRPMs provided at [1], but I appear to have hit a wall. One of the dependencies of tomcat6-6.0.18-8.18.1.noarch [2] is jakarta-commons-dbcp-tomcat5 (provided by jakarta-commons-dbcp [3]). (I don't see why it's requiring tomcat5 components, maybe t

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > >> How old is your laptop? This may be a case of expectations not meeting >> reality. As the Wiki article linked previously mentions, LiION batteries >> deteriorate over time and with use (as do all batteries). In my >> exp

Re: [CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell

Kwan Lowe wrote: > Hello all: >Does anyone know of a tool/project that will allow me to read the > battery condition (not the charge status) on a Dell laptop battery? > Under XP there is a utility that warns that the battery is still > holding a charge but that the battery is degraded and shoul

Re: [CentOS] Default PHP Build ! include Mysql Support?

Chuck wrote: > > Do you need to roll your own PHP build to support MySQL now? I don't see > support built into the included libphp module.. > > Thx, > CC > > > > Use yum search php and watch the output very closely, tha

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

Kenneth Porter wrote: > Slashdot carried this story yesterday on a BIND vulnerability: > > > According to a commenter, this should provide a temporary countermeasure: iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport

Re: [CentOS] postfix and mail origin checks

Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/29/2009 01:58 PM, RedShift wrote: >>> Emails to other destinations should remain unaffected. > ^^ > >> The easiest way is probably to edit master.cf and make smtpd only listen on >> localhost:25. > > well, no. The machine gets

Re: [CentOS] postfix and mail origin checks

Karanbir Singh wrote: > hi, > > Whats the 'robust' way to make sure email to a specific destination is > only accepted if it came over the localhost:25 or /usr/sbin/sendmail > route ? anything else should get a 5xx error. Emails to other > destinations should remain unaffected. > > Using postf

Re: [CentOS] PCI modems

Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:05:49 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. >> I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need >> out-of-tree kernel drivers a

[CentOS] PCI modems

Hi all, I'm currently searching for a PCI modem that will be used to receive faxes. I've tried out a few modems but they all use conexant chipsets, which need out-of-tree kernel drivers and currently doesn't work here (kernel oops when the installation script modprobes the driver). Does anyon

Re: [CentOS] Intel Graphics support in future releases

Ron Blizzard wrote: > Since my computers use built-in Intel graphics chips (which work great > with CentOS 5.3), I've been worrying about Ubuntu's (and other > "cutting edge" distributions) problems with these. It appears to be an > Xorg problem. What I don't understand is why Xorg would release >

Re: [CentOS] how to build php5-cgi from source

Tim Ke wrote: > I am on an old version of Cent OS, and not able to use yum to update the > packages. Any way to build php-cgi executable from the php source code? > > 2009/6/6 Pintér Tibor mailto:tib...@tibyke.hu>> > > Tim Ke írta: > > Does anyone has experience on how to build php5-cgi

Re: [CentOS] Swap priorities with swapon (Is my swap drive working?)

James Bensley wrote: > Hey Listee's > > I have a CentOS server with 2GB of ram and a swap drive of 4GB; > > swapon -a shows my swap drive as 4GB with only about 350 bytes in use > (which is fine as my server idles with about 350-400MB ram usage so no > swap should be in use. However my one and on

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

RedShift wrote: > Hello > > > I'm running CentOS 5.3 with httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.x86_64 and > php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64. When the logrotate scripts run and send the HUP > signal to httpd, the httpd process quits instead of reloading. The only thing > I ca

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

Kai Schaetzl wrote: > RedShift wrote on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:20:32 +0200: > >> Yes, I have tried it, but that's a workaround, not a real solution. > > Well, after reading just the first few lines I think the point is that a > PHP accelerator (APC) is involved. &g

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

S] httpd crashes after signal HUP > *From: *"RedShift" > *To: *"CentOS mailing list" > *Date: *19-04-2009 9:49 > > > >- Oorspronkelijk bericht - > >Van > : RedShift [mailto:redsh...@pandora.be] > >Verz

Re: [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

>- Oorspronkelijk bericht - >Van : RedShift [mailto:redsh...@pandora.be] >Verzonden : zondag , april 19, 2009 09:42 AM >Aan : centos@centos.org >Onderwerp : [CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP > >Hello > > >I'm running CentOS 5.3 with httpd-2.2.3-2

[CentOS] httpd crashes after signal HUP

Hello I'm running CentOS 5.3 with httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.x86_64 and php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3.x86_64. When the logrotate scripts run and send the HUP signal to httpd, the httpd process quits instead of reloading. The only thing I can find in the logs is this: [Sun Apr 19 04:02:04 2009] [notice]

Re: [CentOS] Urgent: filesystem corruption on 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5

Gordon Messmer wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> I opened bug 494927 with Red Hat after seeing this kernel error on two >> different hosts, just a few days after updating or installing CentOS 5.3: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927 > > In an attempt to confirm this bug, I set u

Re: [CentOS] Chroot Install

Marcus Moeller wrote: > Good Morning, > > I want to update my CF-Microdrive for my router with CentOS (currently > there is Slacky on it). I have attached the microdrive to my notebook > using a pcmcia CF adapter. Within my CentOS installation the drive is > detected correctly as ide_cf and all pa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > Let me clarify. When I install the web server packages on a Cent install. You have to do that yourself. You know, do what a sysadmin does? :-) Glenn > --Original Message-- > From: Brian Mathis > Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org > To: CentOS Mailing list > R

[CentOS] acpid events failing after first suspend

Hello I've configured acpid on my laptop to make the powerbutton hibernate the laptop. I modified /etc/acpid/events/power.conf with the following content: event=PWRF action=/usr/bin/pm-hibernate On the first boot it works like it should, but after the laptop has resumed, the powerbutton does

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: >>>> >>>> Glenn Matthys >>> As a follow-up, I found the documentation I wrote how to install CentOS >>> without any installer: >>> >>> >>> # First, setup your disks to your liking. You can use whateve

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Mogens Kjaer wrote: > RedShift wrote: > ... >> Not only do you >> have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 >> arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during >> reconstruction. > > Is this right? > > Whe

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM, RedShift wrote: >> Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So >> instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both >> and then putting those partitions in R

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Phil Schaffner wrote: > RedShift wrote: >>> Another way to get CentOS on such a configuration would be to do >>> everything manually, thus installing the base system by creating the >>> necessary disk allocations and then rpm -i all the required packages >>

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

RedShift wrote: Hello Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put them in one partitionable RAID 1 array

[CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

Hello Since linux 2.6, the md layer has a feature called partitionable arrays. So instead of having two disks, creating an identical partition table on both and then putting those partitions in RAID 1, you take those two disks and put them in one partitionable RAID 1 array (in mdadm terms, "md