Re: [CentOS] Physical position of swap partition on the disk

2020-12-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/30/20 1:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 30, 2020, at 02:35, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: * /dev/sda1: 500 MB /boot ext2 * /dev/sda2: 4 GB swap * /dev/sda3: 55 GB / ext4 I'd be curious to know what's the reason behind this, and if this kind of configuration detail is really signif

Re: [CentOS] Physical position of swap partition on the disk

2020-12-01 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 2:53 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Finally, swap throughput really matters when hibernating to disk. > > And that's really the only time it should matter on a modern system,. I rarely see /any/ swap in use for normal server or workstation operations ___

[CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm regularly using software RAID for my CentOS storage servers, either with RAID 1 or RAID 6 depending on the number of disks. Here's two questions about mdadm I've always been wondering about. 1. I'm not sure about the --metadata option. Let's say I want to create a simple RAID 1 setup, I'

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/1/20 3:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: If anyone can explain the exact meaning of --metadata, I'd be grateful. I think the man page is pretty clear on that one.  There are two different versions of the metadata block, and the second one (1.x) can be stored at different locations depending

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade OpenSSH version to the latest stable version on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

2020-12-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 1, 2020, at 00:49, Peter wrote: > > On 1/12/20 4:04 pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to >> upgrade OpenSSH version openssh-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 to the latest stable >> version openssh-server 8.4 using yum repositories or rpm bi

[CentOS] CentOS 7, as a 6in4 server

2020-12-01 Thread Walter H.
Hello, I have a VPS at a hoster where I got 3 /64 ipv6 prefixes/subnets, that are routed; one for the VPS itself  - let us call this  srvprefix one for the tunnel, only ::1 (server side) and ::2 (home side) are used - let us call this tunnelprefix and one for my network at home - let us call