[CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On a CentOS 6 64bit system, I added a couple prototype SAS SSDs on a HP P411 raid controller (I believe this is a rebranded LSI megaraid with HP firmware) and am trying to format them for best random IO performance with something like postgresql. so, I used the raid command tool to build a raid

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread Ken godee
Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. On 10/23/2011 12:07 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On a CentOS 6 64bit system, I added a couple prototype SAS SSDs on a HP > P411 raid controller (I believe this is a rebranded LSI megaraid with HP > firmware) and am trying to format them for best rand

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 12:23 AM, Ken godee wrote: > Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. with parted at least, I'm stuck with a vicious circle that won't let me align the data right? # parted /dev/sdc GNU Parted 2.1 Using /dev/sdc Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (pa

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 02:35 AM, Yves Bellefeuille piše: > I've seen your correction, but I still don't understand where > this .Trash-root directory comes from. > > The user says that he's running CentOS 5.7 and Gnome, but under Gnome > the trash directory is simply named .Trash, not .Trash-root, and >

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 2:24 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > My observation is that .Trash is for normal users and .Trash-root is > when you delete as Root. I sometimes use Krusader (under Gnome) in root > mode, and that could account for .Thrash-root in my case. Maybe he did > something similar. whem I use

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/23/2011 09:48 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/23/11 12:23 AM, Ken godee wrote: >> Maybe try to partition it to see what happens. > > with parted at least, I'm stuck with a vicious circle that won't let me > align the data right? Didn't parted have issues with alignment? Here are two links w

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - named with internal zone file and forwarding

2011-10-23 Thread Giles Coochey
On 21/10/2011 16:27, Les Mikesell wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: I have two Centos 6 servers running BIND. I have configured the two servers to run internal zones as a master / slave setup. My gateway runs DNSmasq and I would like all other requests for lookups t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - named with internal zone file and forwarding

2011-10-23 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 10/23/2011 01:18 PM, Giles Coochey piše: > On 21/10/2011 16:27, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Your servers running bind should be able to resolve outside names >> with or without a forwarder if they have internet access. Are you >> sure /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to the right nameservers? Try >>

[CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread Scott McKenzie
Hello, I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configu

Re: [CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Scott McKenzie wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production > environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share. > The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - named with internal zone file and forwarding

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Giles, Am 23.10.2011 um 13:18 schrieb Giles Coochey : > ugg > ... turns out I had a rather embarassing typo in named.conf... it all works > now. that tends to happen pretty easily, I know. When I do changes to the BIND configs, I made a habit of using named-checkconf/named-checkzone every t

[CentOS] CentOS 4 Dovecot Problem

2011-10-23 Thread John Hinton
For those of you that still are running CentOS 4... I have one system that is still going... there is a problem with the newest release of Dovecot under mbox. Certain spam is causing this error when users try to log on. file lib.c: line 37 (nearest_power): assertion failed: (num <= ((size_t)1

Re: [CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:56:52AM -0400, Scott McKenzie wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a > production environment the same functionality as they would have on a > Netapp NFS share. The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex > on whic

Re: [CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez
Hello, is mandatory for you to use Linux? I am using FreeNAS to share ZFS volumes via NFS and CIFS and it works really great! Regards, El 23/10/11 20:33, Ray Van Dolson escribió: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 09:56:52AM -0400, Scott McKenzie wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm researching the best method of

Re: [CentOS] ssd quandry

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 4:00 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > Didn't parted have issues with alignment? Here are two links with info > about alignment of SSDs which I found helpful in the past: parted handles alignment as well or better than fdisk, which that blog suggested using. anyways, I have it formatted and

Re: [CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread aurf alien
Look into XFS+LVM. For XFS, you'll have to yum it via; yum install kmod-xfs xfs-progs xfs-dump This is in the centosplus repo. - aurf On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Scott McKenzie wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production > environmen

Re: [CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

2011-10-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/23/11 7:52 PM, aurf alien wrote: > Look into XFS+LVM. > > For XFS, you'll have to yum it via; > > yum install kmod-xfs xfs-progs xfs-dump > > This is in the centosplus repo. XFS is native in C6, you just need xfs-utils from Base -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 san