Re: [CentOS] httpd LDAP auth module

2011-01-11 Thread aurf alien
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >I am looking at LDAP module for Apache httpd for authentication. The > >'yum install' gives me 'mod_authz_ldap.i386 0:0.26-9.el5_5.1', whereas > >on Apache documentation site I find mod_authNz_ldap module. Both > >modules appear to be di

Re: [CentOS] httpd LDAP auth module

2011-01-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I am looking at LDAP module for Apache httpd for authentication. The >'yum install' gives me 'mod_authz_ldap.i386 0:0.26-9.el5_5.1', whereas >on Apache documentation site I find mod_authNz_ldap module. Both >modules appear to be different looking at available directives. Any >clues or suggestions

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 08:42:55PM -0700, compdoc wrote: > zfs-fuse.x86_64 is from epel - at least some users trust that repo. EPEL is very trustworthy, but I for one wouldn't use ZFS fuse for anything "Enterprise" (though I would use it for testing, or personal use). As an aside, a company calle

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
zfs-fuse.x86_64 is from epel - at least some users trust that repo. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:07 AM, compdoc wrote: >> I never said it was native. zfs-fuse.x86_64 >> > > Not a Centos or a RHEL package. Please don't bring up experimental > software in threads that are comparing filesystems for productio

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
I didn't bring up experimental software - I thought that's what he was using. I misread. And it worked quite well, except for write speeds. There are some cool features with zfs. Trying to decide just what file system to use for these larger and larger arrays is something I've been facing very re

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:07 AM, compdoc wrote: > I never said it was native. zfs-fuse.x86_64 > Not a Centos or a RHEL package. Please don't bring up experimental software in threads that are comparing filesystems for production use. If you want to suggest ZFS, you should suggest that th

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
I never said it was native. zfs-fuse.x86_64 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Digimer wrote: > On 01/11/2011 08:00 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: >> On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:51 AM, compdoc wrote: > Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive > caching and >>> no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/11/11 5:34 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume >>> which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, s

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume >> which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so >> total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. > > I

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 11, 2011, at 7:51 PM, "compdoc" wrote: >>> Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and > no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on earth are you > blabbering about? > >>> Use XFS with anything that has no BBU cache support or barrier support and >

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Digimer
On 01/11/2011 08:00 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:51 AM, compdoc wrote: Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and >> no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on earth are you >> blabbering about? >> Use XFS with an

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:51 AM, compdoc wrote: >>> Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and > no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on earth are you > blabbering about? > >>> Use XFS with anything that has no BBU cache support or barrier support

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
>>Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and no data journaling only metadata journaling, what on earth are you blabbering about? >>Use XFS with anything that has no BBU cache support or barrier support and recent files are toast when there is a crash or sudden power

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Christopher Chan
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 02:55 AM, compdoc wrote: > XFS is safe - lots of protection for your data, but it cuts write speeds in > half. When did XFS start looking like reiserfs? Lots of protection for your data? Let's see, super aggressive caching and no data journaling only metadata journ

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
I think it's better to let parted decide how big the partition can be: mkpart primary 0 -1 That should create a partition without a fs type, (no ext3, etc) starting at zero, and using all available. if you have Advanced Format hard drives which are being sold these days, they say you can have pe

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB. >> >> This is a hardware based Areca RAID. I didn't feel the need to load >> any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 11, 2011 03:16:23 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > mkpart 0 3T it works and the partition is 3TB. > > This is a hardware based Areca RAID. I didn't feel the need to load > any Areca drivers as Centos supports this out the box. > > Any ideas? > Maybe it can only make 16TB partitions?

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:56 PM, compdoc wrote: > mklabel gpt > > then use zfs and zpool commands. Lots of good info on google. Well, I did that and it still shows 2199GB. Any ideas why or am I hung up on benign errors. When ever I do this in partd; mkpart primary 0 26T I get; Error: The locati

[CentOS] httpd LDAP auth module

2011-01-11 Thread Carlos S
Hi, I am looking at LDAP module for Apache httpd for authentication. The 'yum install' gives me 'mod_authz_ldap.i386 0:0.26-9.el5_5.1', whereas on Apache documentation site I find mod_authNz_ldap module. Both modules appear to be different looking at available directives. Any clues or suggestions

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
mklabel gpt then use zfs and zpool commands. Lots of good info on google. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume >> which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so >> total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. > > I

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume > which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so > total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. I don't know the answer to your parted question, but let me be t

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: What filesystem are you planning to use, I am hoping for XFS in such a large volume. Yes, i posted earlier and was convinced of XFS. Any ideas why parted is showing the wrong size? - aurf___ C

Re: [CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread Lisandro Grullon
What filesystem are you planning to use, I am hoping for XFS in such a large volume. >>> 1/11/2011 4:41 PM >>> Hello again, Been an interesting day. I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total

[CentOS] parted usage

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
Hello again, Been an interesting day. I'm attempting to use parted to create a partition on a 28TB volume which consists of 16x2TB drives configuired in a Raid 5 + spare, so total unformatted size is 28TB to the OS.. However upon entering parted, and making a gpt label, print reports back

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: | | > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 1:49pm, Digimer wrote | > | >> On 01/11/2011 01:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: | >>> Hi all, | >>> | >>> I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. | >>> | >>> Wondering what you all

Re: [CentOS] replace x86 with x64 system and reuse existing LVM

2011-01-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, January 09, 2011 05:31:25 pm Kai Schaetzl wrote: > As I > understand once LVM gets loaded it should find the volumes by itself, but > will it be able to use the same naming scheme for instance? Or do I have > to do some additional stuff, anyway? I've done this, and there are a couple

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-01-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 01:47:54 pm Kwan Lowe wrote: > Also note that in some cases the lvm tools must be called by > specifying lvm before the command > > lvm pvscan > lvm vgchange -ay VolGroup00 To have in the archive, note that this is the case in the dracut shell (accessed at boot on er

Re: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems

2011-01-11 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > I have been waiting for RHEL6/CentOS6 because, as I understand it, > CentOS5 does not have a statefull IP6 firewall - e.g. incoming traffic > would have to have a default ACCEPT policy or only specific applications > allowed (based on source

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 01:47:33 pm aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. > > Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. XFS. But make sure you're using a 64-bit CentOS. 32-bit CentOS (at least C5 of six months or so ago) will in fact run mkfs.xfs

Re: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 02:12:15PM -0600, Blake Hudson wrote: > From: Stephen Harris > > I have a HE tunnel (tunnelbroker.net) IPv6 tunnel. This works pretty > > well and is simple to setup. Everything works fine. > > > > Until I try to set up an ip6tables firewall. > I have been waiting for R

Re: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems

2011-01-11 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: [CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems From: Stephen Harris To: CentOS mailing list Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:09:25 PM > CentOS 5.5, fully patched. > > I have a HE tunnel (tunnelbroker.net) IPv6 tunnel. This works pretty > well and

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 11:12am, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote > My RAID has a strip size of of 32KB and a block size of 512bytes. > > I've usually just done blind XFS formats but would like to tune it for > smaller files. Of course big/small is relative but in my env, small > means sub 300MB or so. >

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 11:07 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size >> >> The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the >> practical

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 1:49pm, Digimer wrote > >> On 01/11/2011 01:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. >>> >>> Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. >>> >>> I've bee

[CentOS] IPv6, HE tunnel and ip6tables problems

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Harris
CentOS 5.5, fully patched. I have a HE tunnel (tunnelbroker.net) IPv6 tunnel. This works pretty well and is simple to setup. Everything works fine. Until I try to set up an ip6tables firewall. eg if I try to view https://dnssec.surfnet.nl/?p=464 then the page never displays and the firewall sh

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size > > The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the > practical limit. > Have you installed e4fsprogs? - aurf __

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:47 PM, wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. > > Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. > > I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would > like your opinions. > > This 30TB drive will be an NFS exported asse

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
I use ext4 on my tiny 8TB arrays. Centos 5.5 does support it, although the gui tools have small issues with it. Centos 6 should support it better... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the practical limit. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 at 1:49pm, Digimer wrote > On 01/11/2011 01:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. >> >> Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. >> >> I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would >> like

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Digimer wrote: > On 01/11/2011 01:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. >> >> Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. >> >> I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would >> like

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread compdoc
XFS is safe - lots of protection for your data, but it cuts write speeds in half. Ext4 does not slow things down... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Digimer
On 01/11/2011 01:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. > > Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. > > I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would > like your opinions. > > This 30TB drive will be an NFS

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to recover data from my old system which had LVM. The disk had > two partitions - /dev/sda1 (boot, Linux) and /dev/sda2 (Linux LVM). I had > taken a backup of both partitions using dd. > Now I am booting of CentOS live cd fo

[CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would like your opinions. This 30TB drive will be an NFS exported asset for my users housing home dirs and other frequently a

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-01-11 Thread Johan Martinez
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Johan Martinez wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On Saturday, January 08, 2011 04:27:39 pm Johan Martinez wrote: >> >> > Now I am booting of CentOS live cd for system restore. I recreated >> > partitions like previous system using

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/11/2011 10:18 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> Hashing 4 values to 4 targets seems like collisions would be likely no >> matter how you do it. The TX packet/byte values from ifconfig on the >> NICs should show how much went out each interface. > > Yes, we checked that in addit

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread James Pearson
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>I guess you need to look at the bonding src code - looks like it is in >>drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c - for CentOS 5 it is: > > > C xor is bitwise. > > I did a bit of scripting and found that the algorithm seems much more > sensitive to port number

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread lhecking
> Hashing 4 values to 4 targets seems like collisions would be likely no > matter how you do it. The TX packet/byte values from ifconfig on the > NICs should show how much went out each interface. Yes, we checked that in addition to iperf's output. One interface was essentially idle. ---

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Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/11/2011 10:05 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> I guess you need to look at the bonding src code - looks like it is in >> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c - for CentOS 5 it is: > > C xor is bitwise. > > I did a bit of scripting and found that the algorithm seems much more > s

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread lhecking
> I guess you need to look at the bonding src code - looks like it is in > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c - for CentOS 5 it is: C xor is bitwise. I did a bit of scripting and found that the algorithm seems much more sensitive to port numbers than IP addresses. Not that iperf gives much co

Re: [CentOS] drivers

2011-01-11 Thread mahmoud mansy
hey guys, sorry for that mistake it wasnot the centos5.5 iam trying actually ihad that problem with centos5.4 and i manage to solve it but now the problem is with the oracle enterprise linux (not unbreakable ) and i can`t solve as u say previous!!! On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:41 AM, cornel panceac

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
2011/1/11 Peter Kjellström : >> >> So no driver installed.. There's a link I found: > > "Unknown device" from lspci does not in the general case imply a lack of > driver. The only thing it says is that the pci-id database does not contain an > entry for the component. The command "update-pciids" w

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread James Pearson
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: >>According to the Linux bonding docs, xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4 uses: >> >> ((source port XOR dest port) XOR >> ((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0x) >> modulo slave count >> >>So I guess you could plug in in the above IP addresses an

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread lhecking
> According to the Linux bonding docs, xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4 uses: > >((source port XOR dest port) XOR > ((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0x) > modulo slave count > > So I guess you could plug in in the above IP addresses and port numbers > and see if you get

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-11 Thread Lisandro Grullon
That sounds great Jerry, the kernel upgrade worked for you. Just make sure you monitor that module since it is new and it might have glitches still. Keep that module up to date in your agenda. >>> Jerry Geis 1/11/2011 9:30 AM >>> I downloaded 2.6.34.8 - compiled and ran the new kernel making

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-11 Thread Jerry Geis
I downloaded 2.6.34.8 - compiled and ran the new kernel making sure to enable XHCI and the device is now registered with lsusb. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread James Pearson
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > I have a Dell server with four bonded, gigabit interfaces. Bonding mode is > 802.3ad, xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4. When testing this setup with iperf, > I never get more than a total of about 3Gbps throughput. Is there anything > to tweak to get better thro

[CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-11 Thread lhecking
I have a Dell server with four bonded, gigabit interfaces. Bonding mode is 802.3ad, xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4. When testing this setup with iperf, I never get more than a total of about 3Gbps throughput. Is there anything to tweak to get better throughput? Or am I running into other limits (e.

Re: [CentOS] RAID configuration suggestion???

2011-01-11 Thread John Doe
From: mcclnx mcc > we have several DELL R900 with PERC 6/E adapter in it. R900 using Redhat >Linux. Each R900 have two PERC 6/E adapter and at least two MD1000 connect >to >it. > Configuration 1: > PERC 6/E -- two MD1000 > PERC 6/E -- empty > Configuration 2: >

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-11 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Monday, January 10, 2011 08:50:18 pm Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: ... > [snip] > > > 01:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation Unknown device 0194 (rev 03) > > [snip] > > So no driver installed.. There's a link I found: "Unknown device" from lspci does