Re: [CentOS] Samba or NFS

2011-02-11 Thread Peter A
On Friday, February 11, 2011 08:14:54 pm John R Pierce wrote: > On 02/11/11 5:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > OTOH, for mere backup using rsync and ssh might work even better and be > > somewhat simplier. > > except that provides no point in time restoration ability. > > I prefer backup schemes t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-06 Thread Peter A
On Sunday, March 06, 2011 05:28:13 pm John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/06/11 5:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > It's kind of funny since OracleVM*is* Xen, and it's counted as > > "hardware partitioning" :) > > OracleVM(tm) is a brand name now, being used for anything that remotely > resembles virtua

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread Peter A
On Monday, April 04, 2011 10:43:08 PM R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: > > As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it > > needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like "last build; X > > packages OK, Y packages failed"? > > This was done on

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: > > On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. > > > > I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some us

Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project.

2011-04-11 Thread Peter A
On Monday, April 11, 2011 10:12:15 PM Antaryami Khuda wrote: > I see um twitter dag's want to start his own RHEL rebuild. > > Dag how much monies you do need? > > I make contribution of 5.000 rupee if other join. > > Ant This is really disrespectful to talk about on here. The devs spent a ton of

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.1 beta

2011-05-02 Thread Peter A
On Monday, May 02, 2011 09:57:19 AM Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/02/2011 09:38 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > On Monday, May 02, 2011 06:48:37 AM Christopher Chan wrote: > >> biosdevname for nics...bye bye eth0! > > > > Not by default, and according to the release notes only for certain Dell > > servers

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Peter A
Cut'n'paste from a tutorial I'm writing right now: Check with lsof if there are any very large files that are already deleted but are still open by some processes. # df -h . FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 194M 32M 153M 18% /boot # dd if=/dev/ze

Re: [CentOS] Is AMD rev F the same thing as socket F?

2009-10-18 Thread Peter A
On Sunday 18 October 2009 10:53:07 Neil Aggarwal wrote: > It then gives me instructions for AMD revision F CPUs. > I did a search and did not find anything that seems relevant > to revision F. The only stuff I am finding is talking about > socket F. Is that the same things as a Socket F CPU or > s

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 17:13:52 Slack-Moehrle wrote: > My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot of > commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and > server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not foster this > interest. >

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
Jason, 5 will run solaris 10 with a few initial issues. You may have to install 8 or 9 first and then do a firmware upgrade to get 10 to boot for installation. Also, 512MB max will restrict you in what you can do. ZfS boot is possible but slow and in general use, you want to reduce the size of

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:11:51 John R Pierce wrote: > Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > My 12 year old wants to learn more about servers and has memorized a lot > > of commands like ls, chmod, du, etc. He wants to have his own domain and > > server on the web and I have enough Static IP's, so why not

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-12-29 Thread Peter A
> OH, and I just remembered. the Ultra 10 uses the same memory board, but > has a little more room in the chassis, and supports 4 x 256MB tall dimms > of the right type, for 1GB.you can get away with this in hte U5 by > hacking a bit on the inside.catch is, the low profile 256MB modules >

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Peter A
On 01/14/2013 11:20 AM, Matt Garman wrote: > Of course, with these "real" CPUs (compared to e.g. Atom), power > consumption will be much higher when loaded. But from what I've read, > the "real" CPUs are actually better in the long run, because their > computation efficiency is so much higher.

Re: [CentOS] SSD Drives

2012-02-02 Thread Peter A
On 02/02/12 14:05, Mike wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, William Warren wrote: > >> On 2/2/2012 1:19 PM, Matt wrote: >>> Has anyone installed a high I/O application such as an email server on >>> SSD drives? Was thinking about doing two SSD's in RAID1. It would >>> solve my I/O latency issues but I h

Re: [CentOS] SSD Drives

2012-02-02 Thread Peter A
On 02/02/12 17:01, William Warren wrote: > On 2/2/2012 2:15 PM, Peter A wrote: >> If you're worried about io reliability, then buy a (way more expensive) >> SLC drive, rather than the consumer level MLC... We have some SLC drives >> here that from their manufacturer ha