Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-18 Thread Steve Thompson
On Sun, 18 May 2014, Andrew Holway wrote: > Have you looked at parallel filesystems such as Lustre and fhgfs? I have not looked at Lustre, as I have heard many negative things about it (including Oracle ownership). The only business using Lustre where I know the admins has had a lot of trouble

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-18 Thread Chris Weisiger
I'm posting from my phone so I can't bottom post, but I believe this thread has gone on way to long. Lets drop it and get back to what this mailing list is all about. I would rather read posts about the same technical things over and over again that have been asked hundreds of times. But when qu

[CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

2014-05-18 Thread Gergely Buday
Hi, I use centos as it is stable and provides all the software that is needed for everyday use. However, sometimes I would like to use fresh software that is not available as a package. Compiling from source is indeed an option but because centos uses oldish sources not only the sought package sh

Re: [CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

2014-05-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 05/18/2014 12:10 PM, Gergely Buday wrote: > Hi, > > I use centos as it is stable and provides all the software that is > needed for everyday use. > > However, sometimes I would like to use fresh software that is not > available as a package. Compiling from source is indeed an option but > becau

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-18 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 18.05.2014 um 17:51 schrieb Chris Weisiger : > I'm posting from my phone so I can't bottom post, I can say that the usability of the mail application for such a goal doesn't support it in the way to accomplishing it in an efficient manner, but you can do it - it is not a nature law that is pr

[CentOS] Is it legal ?

2014-05-18 Thread ngeorgop
Please tell me your opinion. How legal is to use, redistribute, include in installation cds, repos etc, rpms/srpms like this: http://pull-mirror.yandex.net/fedora/russianfedora/russianfedora/nonfree/fedora/updates/19/SRPMS/chromium-pepper-flash-13.0.0.206-1.fc19.R.src.rpm -- View this message in

Re: [CentOS] Is it legal ?

2014-05-18 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 02:00:32PM -0700, ngeorgop wrote: > Please tell me your opinion. > How legal is to use, redistribute, include in installation cds, repos etc, This is not a legal mailing list. Any opinion represented is not worth the electrons used to transmit it. If you are concerned abo

Re: [CentOS] Is it legal ?

2014-05-18 Thread Digimer
On 18/05/14 05:21 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 02:00:32PM -0700, ngeorgop wrote: >> Please tell me your opinion. >> How legal is to use, redistribute, include in installation cds, repos etc, > > This is not a legal mailing list. Any opinion represented is not worth > the ele

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-18 Thread Ted Miller
On 05/18/2014 11:47 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > MooseFS and GlusterFS have both been evaluated, and were too slow. In the > case of GlusterFS, wy too slow. How recently have you looked at Gluster? It has seen some significant progress, though small files are still its weakest area. I believ

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS and GlusterFS

2014-05-18 Thread Ted Miller
On 05/15/2014 12:54 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi list, > I'm planning to setup a two-node "cluster" with file replication and samba. A caution--a two-node replicated cluster is a poor choice. If something gets into a split-brain condition (easier to happen than it should be) there are only

Re: [CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

2014-05-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 06:10:57PM +0200, Gergely Buday wrote: > However, sometimes I would like to use fresh software that is not > available as a package. Compiling from source is indeed an option but > because centos uses oldish sources not only the sought package should > be built but a lot of

Re: [CentOS] build system for cutting edge software

2014-05-18 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:30:24PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > An idea is to build it in a directory, as much independent as it is > > possible from the installed libraries on the centos installation. Is > > there an automated build system for such an endeavour? > Run Fedora as a VM? Or, ru

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-18 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014, Andrew Holway wrote: > > MooseFS and GlusterFS have both been evaluated, and were too slow. In the > case of GlusterFS, wy too slow. > Do you really need filesystem semantics or would ceph's object store work? --

Re: [CentOS] Centos backup tools

2014-05-18 Thread Chris
On 05/16/2014 04:58 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > I know there's rsync, which may be a good solution. Another solution could be rsync with zfs or btrfs. -- Gruß, Christian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] Samba4 questions

2014-05-18 Thread Chris
On 04/23/2014 12:43 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > I'm not sure win7/8 professional are happy about joining a NT4 Domain, > at least not without a bunch of tinkering with security policies. A registry patch is required, but it's working. -- Gruß, Christian __

Re: [CentOS] Samba4 questions

2014-05-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > SME server used to be pretty good at that sort of thing (small > business server). You could just add users and put them in groups > with the web interface and set up file shares by group. The ClearOS > version might be more up to date, thou

Re: [CentOS] Sorry

2014-05-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/18/2014 8:51 AM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > I'm posting from my phone so I can't bottom post then shut up til you can get on a proper computer that actually knows how to email. noone cares that you're crippling yourself by using a telephone -- john r pierce