guy keren wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> > Now that Linux 2.4.1 is out, with supposedly good LVM and ResierFS
> > support, I think we should upgrade our server to run it. Then we'll be
> > able to straighten out the mirrors situation.
>
> 2.4 itself appears to be stable, from what i've heard/seen. it's also not
> very problematic to install it on a redhat 6.2 system.
>
I would recommend to wait until RH 7.1 will make it out, ( beta was announced
recently),
and to see whether there are bugs/glitches in there.
>
> > To summarize, the order of actions is thus:
> > OmerM or someone else -- update the box to 2.4.1; for that you'd
> > probably need new modutils,
>
Again, I would wait till ac version of kernel will synchronise with Linus' one.
2.4 was released early, and now it is released often. I"d rather wait and see.
Let's say a month from now - or something similar.
>
> more then that. also new version of rpm, and a few other packages. also,
> firewalling'll be changed to use iptables instead of ipchains (it's
> possible to compile backward-compatible support for ipchains, but probably
> not a great ideal. moving from ipchains to iptables is not very hard -
> the commands for filtering remain almost the same).
>
> > We all (I can be the broker) -- contact Aduva and get the disks to our
> > hands,
>
> consider yourself nominated ;)
And ratified:)
>
> > Someone in close proximity to the server (Guy?) -- get there, install
> > the new disks, and do the copy procedure.
>
> no problem with that part. just make sure all those hard disks are somehow
> placed in a single array, rather as several seperate boxes (i assume for a
> set of external hard drives plus a new SCSI controller - the existing
> controller(s) already support a few disks. having more disks will make
> internal-machine copy operations work faster, i guess.
>
> --
> guy
>
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> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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