Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 8:09 PM, Digimer wrote: I'm not so familiar with software RAID, but I would be surprised if there isn't a way to force write-through caching. If this is possible, then Valeri's concern can be addressed (at the cost of performance). software raid on enterprise grade JBOD *is* write-

Re: [CentOS] OT: 3ware [was: Install Centos 6 x86_64 ...]

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 9:55 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> Indeed, lucky me. As of this moment I have 6 of 9650 in production >> boxes. >> For at least 6 years. During which time none of them ever failed on me >> (including any trouble with arrays). Knocki

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Digimer
On 07/09/14 11:01 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: Even more: system failure or power loss is more likely to destroy all data on software RAID than on a single drive when there is a lot of IO present (to the best of my understanding, loss of cache software RAID is u

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Digimer
On 07/09/14 10:43 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: On Sun, September 7, 2014 9:30 pm, John R Pierce wrote: On 9/7/2014 7:19 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: I want to set up a new CentOS install using version 7 and would like to experiment with various RAID levels. Anyone care to point out a tutorial? how m

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Even more: system failure or power loss is more likely to destroy all data > on software RAID than on a single drive when there is a lot of IO present > (to the best of my understanding, loss of cache software RAID is using is > more catastrophic compared t

[CentOS] OT: 3ware [was: Install Centos 6 x86_64 ...]

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > Indeed, lucky me. As of this moment I have 6 of 9650 in production boxes. > For at least 6 years. During which time none of them ever failed on me > (including any trouble with arrays). Knocking on wood. You totally jinxed them! You'll probably have three

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 9:30 pm, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/7/2014 7:19 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: >> I want to set up a new CentOS install using version 7 and would like >> to experiment with various RAID levels. Anyone care to point out a >> tutorial? > > how many drives do you have for this exp

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 7:19 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: I want to set up a new CentOS install using version 7 and would like to experiment with various RAID levels. Anyone care to point out a tutorial? how many drives do you have for this experiment? whats the target usecase for the file systems on the rai

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 8:55 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more >> than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once >> had one of them fried (my clumsiness most like

[CentOS] Centos 7 RAID tutorial?

2014-09-07 Thread Dave Stevens
I want to set up a new CentOS install using version 7 and would like to experiment with various RAID levels. Anyone care to point out a tutorial? TIA Dave -- We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to office -- Aesop ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad wrote: > > I don't see a reason, why I should have a zoo of distros. A productive > basic installation of CentOS 7 needs ~ 100 MB RAM. Why the installation > needs more than 5 times that is really interesting question. Are you volunteering to organize a SIG around low-

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > I guess after that I should declare myself to be lucky. None out of more > than a couple of dozens of 3ware cards ever did harm for me. I did once > had one of them fried (my clumsiness most likely), which then just didn't > come up (3ware just replaced car

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Mark LaPierre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/14 16:06, Oliver Schad wrote: > Ok, final result: deleting the initramfs files results in a clean > installation. So we waste ~300 MB RAM during installation with a > file nobody needs. Great. > > Best Regards Oli > > On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Michael Hennebry
How much memory does it take to run and install from a live CD? What about a clone of a partition that has CentOS installed? -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Sep 7, 2014, at 2:44 PM, Oliver Schad wrote: > And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM, only the installer is > br0ken. Is it a java installer? *g* The installer (anaconda) is written in python. The memory limit is hard-coded into the installer, not based on how much memory the installer

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 5:44 pm, mn 320 wrote: > Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? > Centos 6.5 and now 7 is out but no php-mcrypt. php-mcrypt is used by lots > of applications. and the one from EPEL repository is buggy and sometimes > makes my server crash

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2014-09-07 at 14:00 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Somehow it comes to my mind what someone called M$ Windows somewhere > around Windows XP: "bloated pig" ;-) Starting with Windoze 95, it has been "bloatware". -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office.

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:48 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/7/2014 3:40 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Well they did have the opportunity to make changes in the minimal iso >> since that doesn't directly correspond to a RHEL version. I haven't >> used it yet because I already had the dvd download

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread mn 320
6. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:53 AM, mn 320 wrote: > It is not the server crashing. Apache stops responding and I could not > find anything in the logs. > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:47 AM, John R. Dennison > wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:44:44AM +0200, mn 320 wrote: >> > Is Centos tea

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread mn 320
It is not the server crashing. Apache stops responding and I could not find anything in the logs. On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 12:47 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:44:44AM +0200, mn 320 wrote: > > Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? > > C

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 3:44 PM, mn 320 wrote: Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? Centos 6.5 and now 7 is out but no php-mcrypt. is this package part of RHEL 6 or 7 ? -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 3:40 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Well they did have the opportunity to make changes in the minimal iso since that doesn't directly correspond to a RHEL version. I haven't used it yet because I already had the dvd downloaded, but if you have reasonable internet bandwidth, I think a minim

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 12:44:44AM +0200, mn 320 wrote: > Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? > Centos 6.5 and now 7 is out but no php-mcrypt. php-mcrypt is used by lots > of applications. and the one from EPEL repository is buggy and sometimes > makes my server

[CentOS] php-mcrypt

2014-09-07 Thread mn 320
Is Centos team going to publish a correct version of php-mcrypt via yum? Centos 6.5 and now 7 is out but no php-mcrypt. php-mcrypt is used by lots of applications. and the one from EPEL repository is buggy and sometimes makes my server crash. ___ CentOS m

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Mike Burger wrote: > > Oli...perhaps instead of taking out your anger and frustration on the CentOS > packagers, you might wish to vent at the Upstream...because, when all is > said and done, CentOS is a repackaged RHEL. Whatever the requirements are > for the upstr

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/7/2014 11:56 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> >On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: > >And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM >>> > >>> >https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB m

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 2:04 pm, Mike Burger wrote: > On 2014-09-07 2:56 pm, Oliver Schad wrote: >> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 >> John R Pierce wrote: >> >>> On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: >>> > And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM >>> >>> https://access.redhat.com/art

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
Ok, final result: deleting the initramfs files results in a clean installation. So we waste ~300 MB RAM during installation with a file nobody needs. Great. Best Regards Oli On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:45:40 +0200 Oliver Schad wrote: > On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:19:01 +0200 > Oliver Schad wrote: > > > t

Re: [CentOS] Could not resolve host: mirror.centos.org

2014-09-07 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 09/07/2014 10:22 PM, Александр Кириллов wrote: This is an ipv6-enabled system and that's probably why yum tries to get an ipv6 address first for mirror.centos.org and fails miserably. For whatever reason I do not get an authoritative negative response for query from upstream servers. Wel

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 11:56 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: >On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: > >And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM > >https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB minimum for >x86_64. It doesn't matter what

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 21:19:01 +0200 Oliver Schad wrote: > tmpfs: /run/, 311 MB used That is really funny: inside of this ramdisk is a tmp dir, with 279 MB inside, where the biggest part is the squashfs image and some files which are generated after start of installation. ├── curl_fetch_url0 ├── c

Re: [CentOS] Could not resolve host: mirror.centos.org

2014-09-07 Thread Александр Кириллов
Александр Кириллов писал 2014-09-06 18:32: There seems to be a problem with my local dns server resolving mirror.centos.org. I know something about dns but obviously not enough to figure out what might be wrong here or how to fix this in bind configs. The SERVFAIL errors below seem to be relate

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:04:12 -0400 Mike Burger wrote: > Oli...perhaps instead of taking out your anger and frustration on the > CentOS packagers My first statement was a simple "FYI" so that you know this requirement during installation. I found one problem with the initramfs file which has 30

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Mike Burger
On 2014-09-07 2:56 pm, Oliver Schad wrote: On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: > And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB minimum for x86_64. It doesn't matter what it sa

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 1:08 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad wrote: >> >> With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with >> more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ... Interestingly: I just looked up FreeBSD 64 bit (amd64 they cal

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:48:36 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: > > And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB minimum for > x86_64. It doesn't matter what it says. What matters is to think about re

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Steven Stern
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/07/2014 01:31 PM, Oliver Schad wrote: > On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:08:18 -0700 > Keith Keller wrote: > >> On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad wrote: >>> >>> With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with >>> more than 512 MB RAM on a te

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 1:04 pm, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> It doesn't sound like you are flashing all 3ware cards you have in >> production every time new firmware release it out. It doesn't sound >> either >> like you had fatal failure of production box b

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 11:44 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: And CentOS 7 runs perfectly with 512 MB RAM https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-limits says 1GB minimum for x86_64. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:38:36 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > On 9/7/2014 11:31 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: > > No, a basic box for common services like DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Nginx, ... > > doesn't need much RAM, so 512 MB is really enough. > > a $50 beaglebone black has 512MB ram, and is best run with ucLin

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 9/7/2014 11:31 AM, Oliver Schad wrote: No, a basic box for common services like DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Nginx, ... doesn't need much RAM, so 512 MB is really enough. a $50 beaglebone black has 512MB ram, and is best run with ucLinux and busybox. That is not the target market of RHEL7 and therefo

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:08:18 -0700 Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad wrote: > > > > With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with > > more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ... > > Could switch to a different console and bounce on top,

Re: [CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-07, Oliver Schad wrote: > > With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with > more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ... Could switch to a different console and bounce on top, if you're interested. 512MB seems really small these days, so I'm g

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-07 Thread Keith Keller
On 2014-09-07, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > It doesn't sound like you are flashing all 3ware cards you have in > production every time new firmware release it out. It doesn't sound either > like you had fatal failure of production box because of bug in 3ware > firmware. Correct me if I'm wrong, other

[CentOS] Minimum RAM for CentOS7

2014-09-07 Thread Oliver Schad
Just FYI: I had several problems to install CentOS 7 with 512 MB RAM. No log showed me that problem (I would expect a system check before). With 1 GB RAM everything runs fine. Don't know, what they do with more than 512 MB RAM on a text only system during installation ... Best Regards Oli sign

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-07 Thread James Hogarth
On 7 Sep 2014 13:01, "Frantisek Hanzlik" wrote: > > Are somewhere for these distribution available (unofficial) Samba4 > RPMs packages with Heimdal Kerberos? > http://www.enterprisesamba.com We use these at my workplace. As for the MIT bit according to the samba technical list if it doesn't lan

Re: [CentOS] Ifconfig ipv6:permission denied.

2014-09-07 Thread Jim Perrin
On 09/07/2014 03:24 AM, dE wrote: > Hi! > > I installed CentOS 7 today, it's a minimal install, so it didn't have > ifconfig command. So I installed net-tools, however I can't add ipv6 > address to it. The cool kids are all using 'ip' these days since ifconfig is deprecated. > > # ifconfig en

Re: [CentOS] Install Centos 6 x86_64 on Dell PowerEdge 2970 and aSSD (hardware probing issues)

2014-09-07 Thread Valeri Galtsev
On Sun, September 7, 2014 1:35 am, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-09-06, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> >> ... I've mentined manufacturers in another reply: tyan, lsi, 3ware, >> ati... > > Even 3ware has had buggy firmwares. I once had to flash a 3ware card > years into production because it was not un

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-07 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Aly Khimji wrote: > It would appear the samba4 DC isn't available for C7 just yet. > > "As Fedora and RHEL are using MIT Kerberos implementation as its Kerberos > infrastructure of choice, the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller > implementation is not available with MIT Kereberos at the mome

Re: [CentOS] Ifconfig ipv6:permission denied.

2014-09-07 Thread Eero Volotinen
2014-09-07 11:24 GMT+03:00 dE : > Hi! > > I installed CentOS 7 today, it's a minimal install, so it didn't have > ifconfig command. So I installed net-tools, however I can't add ipv6 > address to it. > > # ifconfig enp0s3 add fc00::1002/124 > SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied.´ > try disabling ipv6

[CentOS] Ifconfig ipv6:permission denied.

2014-09-07 Thread dE
Hi! I installed CentOS 7 today, it's a minimal install, so it didn't have ifconfig command. So I installed net-tools, however I can't add ipv6 address to it. # ifconfig enp0s3 add fc00::1002/124 SIOCSIFADDR: Permission denied. Yes, I'm running as root. CentOS is running in a Qemu instance w