[CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-03-31 Thread Cal Sawyer
Hi CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE. I am trying to prevent removable USB and eSATA devices from occupying /dev/sdX devices ahead of a 3ware RAID controller. For example: at boot, if a USB drive and eSATA HDD (connected to an LSI 1068E onboard controller, reflashed in "IT" mode to handle hotpl

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 74, Issue 31

2011-03-31 Thread Cal Sawyer
't appear to be the right place and that's about as deep down as i know how to go. cheers, cs -- Message: 30 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:24:42 -0400 From: Phil Schaffner Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? To: Message-ID: <4d948

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
Apologies in advance for excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode so got them all in one lump. Rudi Ahlers: You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is attached to the drive's UID (I think?) so even if you move the drive to anther port it will

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
fstab (or has a 'noauto' line in /etc/fstab with the idea of mounting it manually later or has something in automount's config for automounting it), the hot plug system should not touch it, no matter what /dev/sdXX it happens to land at, so long as you are using volume labels or s

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
Sawyer Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Cal Sawyer wrote: Apologies in advance for excerpting or leaving out the messages sent to the list as i was in digest mode so got them all in one lump. Rudi Ahlers: You could assign a

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
be a replacement for it at some point? - cal sawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen Sent: 01 April 2011 14:18 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On F

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
I think that everyone lese lives in a far more ordered universe than i do. My "problem" - no, wait - "challenge" is that i have zero control over the origin of incoming media on USB and eSATA. Could be any brand of USB stick sold under the sun or HDDs formatted FAT32, NTFS, ext2/3. The only const

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Cal Sawyer
...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Lamar Owen Sent: 01 April 2011 15:19 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices? On Friday, April 01, 2011 09:53:06 am Cal Sawyer wrote: > Nope, no LVM on the RIAD array. It just needs to load right after the main >

Re: [CentOS] Is Centos 5.5 too old fro Google Chrome?

2011-04-04 Thread Cal Sawyer
Hi I use the Chromium build from: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~cxs548/chrome The highest Chromium rev you can run with the RHEL5.x flash-plugin chrome-10.0.612.0.tar.gz is v10. chrome-11 is incompatible with flash-plugin-10.2.152.27-0.1.el5.rf. Looks like flash-plugin_10.2.153.1-0.1.el5.rf is

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread Cal Sawyer
Re quad-port NICs: AOC-SG-i4 is good, too, and smaller than the UG version. iirc, it uses a newer Intel chipset as well. Oddly, it isn't listed on Supermicro's site except as a PDF factsheet. I have a few of them and they work well. There's also the Intel EXPI9404PTL, but here in the UK it's a

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone suggest a SCSI 3 card in either PCI-X or PCI-E x 4 for a Dell Poweredge 2900?

2011-04-08 Thread Cal Sawyer
I like my Atto ExpressPCI UL5D. Supports LUNs > 2TB, which iirc, Adaptec still (?) doesn't. - csawyer   -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Hackl Sent: 08 April 2011 10:31 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentO

Re: [CentOS] INN removed from CentOS 6

2011-04-28 Thread Cal Sawyer
In a past life when i was working with IRIX systems, i changed from innd to DNews (http://netwinsite.com/dnews/install.htm, http://netwinsite.com/dnews/faq1.htm#2). Looks like it's been out of development since 2007 (but what's changed nntp-wise since 2007? dunno), but it was a piece of cake

[CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead?

2015-09-14 Thread Cal Sawyer
Haven't been able to reach atrpms.net for over a week from London, UK, when i last looked for it after a couple of intervening months. Did i miss something? And if atrpms is truly defunct, where's a good place to obtain updated versions of vlc and mplayer now? thanks! - cal

Re: [CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead?

2015-09-18 Thread Cal Sawyer
Thanks to Earl for the NUX repo recommendation. Good VLC and ffmpeg versions (for CentOS) here. From what i can tell, atrpms died a death earlier this year or the end of last cheers - cal sawyer Earl A Ramirez wrote: To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is ATRPMs dead? On 14

[CentOS] journaled quotas in CentOS6?

2016-04-14 Thread Cal Sawyer
Hi CentOS 6.7 (kernel 2.6.32-573.el6.x86) ... Wanted to set up group quotas on a new ext4 filesystem. When i was initialising via quotacheck, received this message > quotacheck -vcg /HOMES quotacheck: Your kernel probably supports journaled quota but you are not using it. I liked

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-06-18 Thread Cal Sawyer
From: Les Mikesell Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server? To: CentOS mailing list On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >> Am I missing something glaringly obvious here, or is the only way I'm >> going be able to migrate is to shutdown the C5

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-06-19 Thread Cal Sawyer
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server? To: CentOS mailing list On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Cal Sawyer wrote: >> > >> > ReaR has suddenly become very interesting to me, probably explaining why >> > it utterly fails to work properly

[CentOS] CentOS6.2: installation at specific kernel level

2012-07-12 Thread Cal Sawyer
Hi, all I have a number of machines that are out of sync with one another by virtue of having done a yum update after a base 6.2 install at different times (all were previous CentOS 5.3) Consequently, systems are a mix of 2.6.32-220.7.1, 2.6.32-220.13.1 or 2.6.32-220.17.1. So 2 questions: -

Re: [CentOS] Configure LAGG Interface?

2012-08-06 Thread Cal Sawyer
In my experience, LAG/LACP won't provide aggregatation, only failover and fault tolerance. For link aggregation, you don't need to configure the switch ports - just set bonding to mode=6 for balanced transmit/receive and plug up the the NICs to a group of ports on the switch. However, balance-alb

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 91, Issue 7

2012-08-07 Thread Cal Sawyer
t/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Am 06.08.2012 19:44, schrieb Rainer Duffner: >> > >> > Am 06.08.2012 um 19:22 schrieb Cal Sawyer : >> > >>> >> In my experience, LAG/LACP won't provide aggregatation, only failover >>> >> and fault t