Re: [CentOS] Is lsb 3.2+ detrimental to CentOS 5.4?

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Hamblett
2009/12/10 MHR > I found out today that Google Chrome is now available for Linux. > However, and this is a big but: > > $ sudo rpm -ivh google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm > Password: > warning: google-chrome-beta_current_x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA > signature: NOKEY, key ID 7fac5991 > error: Fa

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-10 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine a

[CentOS] ntp update version

2009-12-10 Thread Ron Yorston
I noticed that although I'd fetched the latest update to ntp from the mirror it wasn't being installed. It seems that the version numbers have got out of step. According to the changelog the update that was released in August should have had the version number 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_7.2, whereas

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Timo Schoeler
[off list] Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm really concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason we're moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (FreeBSD) needs after a crash. XFS seemed to me to fit perfectly as I

Re: [CentOS] ntp update version

2009-12-10 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Ron Yorston wrote: > I noticed that although I'd fetched the latest update to ntp from the > mirror it wasn't being installed. > > It seems that the version numbers have got out of step.  According to > the changelog the update that was released in August should ha

Re: [CentOS] ntp update version

2009-12-10 Thread Ron Yorston
Akemi Yagi wrote: >You may want to check upon this CentOS bug report: > >http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4060 Which has been closed as 'no change required'. Some change is required. As things stand my systems are on version 4.2.0.a.20040617-8.el4_8.2, the CentOS name for the August update. T

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Timo Schoeler wrote: > [off list] > > > Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm really > concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason we're > moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (FreeBSD) needs > after a crash. XFS s

Re: [CentOS] find latest version of rpms from a mirror

2009-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: john blair > I want to write a script to find the latest version of rpm of a given package > available from a mirror for eg: > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/ > Is there any existing script that does this? Or can someone give me a general > idea on how to go about this

[CentOS] Quagga ECMP

2009-12-10 Thread Cristian Carstea
Hello, does anybody know if quagga for CentOS 5.3 is compiled with -enable-multipath? I want to implement ECMP over 2 ISP. Thanks, Cristi Carstea ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I don't see how to do it. I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. I find it interesting, and sad, that there is no easy 'output to file' profile setting. ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Rick Barnes
On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I don't see how to do it. > > I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, > copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. > > I find it interesting, and sad, that there is no easy 'output to file' > profile setting. man

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 08:05:06AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I don't see how to do it. > > I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, > copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. > > I find it interesting, and sad, that there is no easy 'output to file' >

Re: [CentOS] Quagga ECMP

2009-12-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Cristian Carstea wrote: > > Hello, > > does anybody know if quagga for CentOS 5.3 is compiled with > -enable-multipath? > I want to implement ECMP over 2 ISP. > You can look in the /boot/config-* files. Those are the configs that it was built with. In my 5.4 syst

[CentOS] Is lsb 3.2+ detrimental to CentOS 5.4?

2009-12-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, MHR wrote: > $ yum list | grep -i lsb > redhat-lsb.i3863.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos > installed > redhat-lsb.x86_64 3.1-12.3.EL.el5.centos > installed when a non-CentOS packaging calls for a CentOS provided package by

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2009, at 4:28 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: > [off list] > > Thanks for your eMail, Ross. So, reading all the stuff here I'm > really > concerned about moving all our data to such a system. The reason > we're > moving is mainly, but not only the longisch fsck UFS (

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> LVM like md raid and drbd is a layered block device and > If you turn the wire caches off on the HDs then there is no problem, > but HDs aren't designed to perform to spec with the write cache > disabled they expect important data is written with FUA access (forced > unit access), so performance

[CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that possible or must I reinstall? Matt ___ CentOS maili

[CentOS] Virtualization Howto

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I see this virtualization howto for Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall It goes into how to make your own cloud. Is there a similiar howto anywhere for CentOS 5.4 or anything? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization Howto

2009-12-10 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Matt: > It goes into how to make your own cloud. Is there a similiar howto > anywhere for CentOS 5.4 or anything? Does the RHEL Virtualization Guide help? http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Virtualiz ation_Guide/index.html Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Mathieu Baudier wrote: >> LVM like md raid and drbd is a layered block device and >> If you turn the wire caches off on the HDs then there is no problem, >> but HDs aren't designed to perform to spec with the write cache >> disabled they expect important data is written with FUA access (forced >> u

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread James Bensley
You will have to reinstall because if you add two more 500GB drives to make your set up into a three drive horse, you then need to format each drive and synchronise them together creating the new logical RAID volume so no data can be kept on said disks prior to the creation of the RAID. HTH! --

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-10 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS > > > > Hello everybody.

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-10 Thread KJS
Victor Padro wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara >> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM >> To: centos@centos.org >> Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-10 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Victor Padro wrote: > Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, > well just my opinion. One caveat is hardware support. I assume because it is FreeBSD and not Linux About a month or two ago I decided to go out and google for firewall d

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Mark Caudill
Rick Barnes wrote: > On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I don't see how to do it. >> >> I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, >> copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. >> >> I find it interesting, and sad, that there is no easy 'output to fi

[CentOS] CUPS designjet 500

2009-12-10 Thread Alejandro Rodriguez Luna
Hi everyone!! Does someone have configured a plotter HP designjet 500?, what driver did you use?, or what did you do? I'm using centos 5.4 -- Alejandro Rodriguez Luna E-mail: el_alexl...@yahoo.com.mx -- Encuentra las mej

Re: [CentOS] Quagga ECMP

2009-12-10 Thread Cristian Carstea
yes, that's right, but i am asking here about Quagga, which is a routing software (OSPF, BGP etc.), not about kernel multipath, i mean if Quagga is compiled with Equal Cost MultiPath (ECMP), the "-enable-multipath" compile option. Can someone post here the spec file from which quagga rpm was bu

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:39:25 -0600 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I r

[CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
I have recently been told I will have to maintain some CentOS servers at work. Since I have only been using Slackware for the last 16 years, I decided to install CentOS on one of my servers at home to get an idea of the differences. I installed CentOS 5.4 from CD with no problems, did a yum upd

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bob McConnell wrote: > [...] > Everything looks ok, but I keep seeing this message on the active > console. I have no idea where it comes from nor what it means. > > type=1400 audit(1260446462.444:9): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2200 > comm="smbd" path="/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc" dev=binfmt_

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread m . roth
> I have recently been told I will have to maintain some CentOS servers at > work. Since I have only been using Slackware for the last 16 years, I > decided to install CentOS on one of my servers at home to get an idea of > the differences. I installed CentOS 5.4 from CD with no problems, did a > y

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Rick Barnes wrote: > On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> I don't see how to do it. >> >> I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, >> copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. >> >> I find it interesting, and sad, that there is no easy 'output to fi

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Alan McKay
Google "say no to RAID 5" http://baarf.com/ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Matt wrote: > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I reinstall? > In theory yo

Re: [CentOS] Quagga ECMP

2009-12-10 Thread Gavin Carr
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 07:23:06PM +0200, Cristian Carstea wrote: > yes, that's right, but i am asking here about Quagga, which is a > routing software (OSPF, BGP etc.), not about kernel multipath, i > mean if Quagga is compiled with Equal Cost MultiPath (ECMP), the > "-enable-multipath" compile op

[CentOS] poweredge 1950 hangs at starting udev

2009-12-10 Thread Ryan Pugatch
Hi all, I have a PowerEdge 1950 that was acting weird. Network connectivity was only performing at a quarter of what was expected (if that). Even if I scp'd something to localhost it would perform poorly. Rather than fight with it, I just decided to reload it. It was running 5.3, and it is

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob McConnell wrote: >> [...] >> Everything looks ok, but I keep seeing this message on the active >> console. I have no idea where it comes from nor what it means. >> >> type=1400 audit(1260446462.444:9): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2200 >> comm="smbd" path="/proc/s

Re: [CentOS] poweredge 1950 hangs at starting udev

2009-12-10 Thread nate
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > Wondering if anyone has an idea.. Run hardware diagnostics? Check power management settings in the bios? nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2009-12-10 Thread Ausmus, Matt
I don't know why I haven't signed up for this list before since we use CentOS all over the place. The list is very useful and it is good for me to participate and "give back" to the community. Anywho, I wanted to post this response to a thread that was created back in November 2008 about the n

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Mathieu Baudier wrote: LVM like md raid and drbd is a layered block device and If you turn the wire caches off on the HDs then there is no problem, but HDs aren't designed to perform to spec with the write cache disabled they expect important data is written

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > Google "say no to RAID 5" > > http://baarf.com/ > > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/RAID-5-Doomed-2009,6525.html > Say goodbye to whole-disk based RAID solutions and hello to next generation sub-disk RAID solutions, dramatically extending the real world lifetime of RAID 5(and

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Tony Molloy
On Thursday 10 December 2009 17:28:45 Bob McConnell wrote: > I have recently been told I will have to maintain some CentOS servers at > work. Since I have only been using Slackware for the last 16 years, I > decided to install CentOS on one of my servers at home to get an idea of > the differences.

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bob McConnell wrote: > I also have a problem with syslogd. I added '-r' to SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog, but after a restart it still won't accept > network traffic, and that flag doesn't show up in the command line in > the 'ps ax' dump. What do I have to do to enable traffic in

Re: [CentOS] Unable to share directory via Samba?

2009-12-10 Thread James Bensley
Thanks for all the input everyone, Basically I trashed the smb.conf and the folder I wanted to share, restarted the machine, re-wrote the smb.conf (again) and re-made the directory and set permissions etc, restarted the machine and all is well! Thanks all for your input it has helped me write an

Re: [CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2009-12-10 Thread Steve Huff
On Dec 10, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Ausmus, Matt wrote: Anywho, I wanted to post this response to a thread that was created back in November 2008 about the ntop daemon failing to start. I’m currently setting up ntop as a NetFlow & SFlow collector and came across the issue. A quick refresher, th

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 05.12.2009 18:15, Miguel Medalha wrote: >> And, as of CentOS 5.4, xfs is now enabled in the kernel, so >> no need for any external kernel module. But yes, this is available for >> x86_64 only > > ... a decision that many people have trouble at understanding! XFS is not stable on 32-bit systems.

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 05.12.2009 22:04, John R Pierce wrote: > that same OS/2 JFS was backported to AIX as JFS2, I believe. When JFS was implemented on OS/2 it was based on JFS on AIX. After that, JFS for Linux and JFS2 was based on the same code. Not sure I would say "backported", but there you go There are

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Morten Torstensen
On 08.12.2009 13:34, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >> Speaking for me (on Linux systems) on top of LVM on top of md. On IRIX >> as it was intended. >> > That is a disaster combination for XFS even now. You mentioned some > pretty hefty hardware in your other post... If XFS doesn't play well w

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Miguel Medalha
> XFS is not stable on 32-bit systems. You should not use it there. You > need a 64-bit kernel. > > Default for servers should be 64-bit now anyway. Not many reasons left > for a 32-bit system, and more and more 3. party applications have less > and less support for 32-bit platforms in general.

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Mark Caudill wrote: > Rick Barnes wrote: > >> On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I don't see how to do it. >>> >>> I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, >>> copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. >>> >>> I find it interesting, an

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Les Mikesell wrote: > Rick Barnes wrote: > >> On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> I don't see how to do it. >>> >>> I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, >>> copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc. >>> >>> I find it interesting, an

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Miguel Medalha wrote: >> XFS is not stable on 32-bit systems. You should not use it there. You >> need a 64-bit kernel. >> >> Default for servers should be 64-bit now anyway. Not many reasons left >> for a 32-bit system, and more and more 3. party applications have less >> and less support for 3

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Miguel Medalha
> If they do what you want without making you wait, why even consider changing > the > filesystem that has been working for years on these machines? > Adding new, bigger disks and new filesystems? Wanting these to be the fastest that is reasonably possible? As for the system that arose the

Re: [CentOS] Screen capture in Terminal

2009-12-10 Thread Mark Caudill
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Mark Caudill wrote: >> Rick Barnes wrote: >> >>> On 12/10/2009 08:05 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> I don't see how to do it. I had to telnet into a firewall and run a trace, and I had to stop it, copy and paste to gedit, then start again, etc.

[CentOS] .htaccess and ?

2009-12-10 Thread centos
Hi, I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to work for me: Match the string between the domain and the question mark: ? http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page?action=diff and I want to redirect it to: http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page Any suggestion? Thanks

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess and ?

2009-12-10 Thread James Bensley
You might have to enable re-writes in you Apache conf? Or did I imagine that??? -- Regards, James ;) Stephen Leacock  - "I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Miguel Medalha wrote: >> If they do what you want without making you wait, why even consider changing >> the >> filesystem that has been working for years on these machines? >> > > Adding new, bigger disks and new filesystems? Wanting these to be the > fastest that is reasonably possible? >

[CentOS] raid10, centos 4.x

2009-12-10 Thread John R Pierce
I just created a 4 drive mdadm --level=raid10 on a centos 4.8-ish system here, and shortly thereafter remembreed I hadn't updated it in a while, so i ran yum update... while installing/updating stuff, got these errors: Installing: kernel ### [14/

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/10/2009 10:39 AM, Matt wrote: > I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is > about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 > without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that > possible or must I reinstall? Moving to RAID-1 is g

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
>> I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive.  Drive is >> about 10 percent used.  I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 >> without reinstalling the OS.  Was thinking 3 500GB drives.  Is that >> possible or must I reinstall? > > Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fairly easy.  Movi

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob McConnell wrote: >> I also have a problem with syslogd. I added '-r' to SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog, but after a restart it still won't accept >> network traffic, and that flag doesn't show up in the command line in >> the 'ps ax' dump. What do I hav

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Les Mikesell
Matt wrote: >>> I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is >>> about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 >>> without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that >>> possible or must I reinstall? >> Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fai

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive.  Drive is about 10 percent used.  I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 without reinstalling the OS.  Was thinking 3 500GB drives.  Is that possible or must I reinstall? >>> Moving to RAID-1 is going to be fairly eas

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Morten Torstensen wrote: > On 08.12.2009 13:34, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: >>> Speaking for me (on Linux systems) on top of LVM on top of md. On IRIX >>> as it was intended. >>> >> That is a disaster combination for XFS even now. You mentioned some >> pretty hefty hardware in your other pos

Re: [CentOS] XFS and LVM2 (possibly in the scenario of snapshots)

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
> No mention of barriers in the man page, I'm also getting confused. is > device mapper used for software raid - i.e. /dev/mdX? Nope. Software raid is the md layer. Nothing to do with dm. Two separate layers although they share a bit of stuff. > If so what are the implications of barriers and

Re: [CentOS] raid10, centos 4.x

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
John R Pierce wrote: > I just created a 4 drive mdadm --level=raid10 on a centos 4.8-ish system > here, and shortly thereafter remembreed I hadn't updated it in a while, > so i ran yum update... > > while installing/updating stuff, got these errors: > > Installing: kernel

Re: [CentOS] raid10, centos 4.x

2009-12-10 Thread John R Pierce
Christopher Chan wrote: > If anaconda is doing the update here, I guess it is because anaconda in > 4.x does not have raid10 personality support. The raid10 personality is > NOT the same as nested raid1+0. It is an entirely new module from Neil > Brown that has a poor choice of a name imho. It d

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Mark Caudill
Christopher Chan wrote: > Morten Torstensen wrote: >> On 08.12.2009 13:34, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Speaking for me (on Linux systems) on top of LVM on top of md. On IRIX as it was intended. >>> That is a disaster combination for XFS even now. You mentioned some >>> pretty

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread John R Pierce
Mark Caudill wrote: > Wait, just to be clear, are you saying that all use of LVM is a bad idea > unless on hardware RAID? That's bad it if it's true since it seems to me > that most modern distros like to use LVM by default. Am I missing something? > if LVM is ignoring write barriers, its not

Re: [CentOS] raid10, centos 4.x

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
John R Pierce wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> If anaconda is doing the update here, I guess it is because anaconda in >> 4.x does not have raid10 personality support. The raid10 personality is >> NOT the same as nested raid1+0. It is an entirely new module from Neil >> Brown that has a poor

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
John R Pierce wrote: > Mark Caudill wrote: >> Wait, just to be clear, are you saying that all use of LVM is a bad idea >> unless on hardware RAID? That's bad it if it's true since it seems to me >> that most modern distros like to use LVM by default. Am I missing something? >> > > if LVM is i

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher Chan
Mark Caudill wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> Morten Torstensen wrote: >>> On 08.12.2009 13:34, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Speaking for me (on Linux systems) on top of LVM on top of md. On IRIX > as it was intended. > That is a disaster combination for XFS even now. Yo

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Mark Caudill wrote: > Christopher Chan wrote: >> Morten Torstensen wrote: >>> On 08.12.2009 13:34, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Speaking for me (on Linux systems) on top of LVM on top of md. > On IRIX > as it was intended. > That is a di

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-10 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of KJS >Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:16 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS > >PFSense or IPCop, IPCop is a little easier to configure IMO. Is I