Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Alexandru Chiscan
Hello Stuart, On 06/25/2015 11:51 PM, Stuart Barkley wrote: For (ssh based) X forwarding no X server needs to run on the server. I usually install the xorg-x11-xauth (necessary) and xterm (optional) rpms on all my servers in case X forwarding becomes necessary. Then from your desktop (assum

Re: [CentOS] Trying to update a CentOS 7.1 docker image, getting errors on yum update regarding iputils

2015-06-26 Thread Nux!
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Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Steve Clark
On 06/25/2015 06:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com Wed Jun 24 01:42:13 UTC 2015 I wondered the same thing, especially in the context of someone who prefers virtual machines. LV-backed VMs have *dramatically* better disk performance than file-backed VMs. I

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 26.06.2015 um 12:47 schrieb Steve Clark : > On 06/25/2015 06:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer at gmail.com Wed Jun 24 01:42:13 UTC 2015 >> >>> I wondered the same thing, especially in the context of someone who >>> prefers virtual machines. LV-backed VMs have *drama

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Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread mark
On 06/25/15 18:02, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:55:41 -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark "and why is it called xorg-x11-server, when in X terminology, it's the client?"* * Which I always thought was bass-ackward, but... You should think of it this way: the program that

Re: [CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:27:47PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > It's bad design. First, it's a nested mount: file system A on /, and > file system B on /boot, and file system C on /boot/efi. Therefore the > mount process must make sure they're mounted in that order, or there's > failure. I've nev

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 06/25/2015 06:44 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> I did a bunch of testing of Raw, qcow2, and LV backed VM storage circa >> Fedora 19/20 and found very little difference. What mattered most was >> the (libvirt) cache setting, accessible by virsh

[CentOS] ssh -X versus -Y

2015-06-26 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Fri, 26 Jun 2015 at 03:16 -, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > On 06/25/2015 11:51 PM, Stuart Barkley wrote: > > Then from your desktop (assuming Linux already running X) in a > > local xterm do something like: > > > > ssh -Y remote-system > > Do not use that because any user logged on the se

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2015 07:58 AM, Mark Milhollan wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Gordon Messmer wrote: 1) If you have a system with a single disk, you have to reboot to add partitions for new guests. Linux won't refresh the partition table on the disk it boots from. I'm not sure this is still true, but I u

Re: [CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:27:47PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: >> It's bad design. First, it's a nested mount: file system A on /, and >> file system B on /boot, and file system C on /boot/efi. Therefore the >> mount process must make sure

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2015 12:16 AM, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: Do not use that because any user logged on the server can connect to your X server display and snoop what you are doing, open windows etc. -Y disables all the X server authentication mechanisms (http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/Se

Re: [CentOS] An odd X question

2015-06-26 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 06/26/2015 05:04 AM, mark wrote: You misunderstand me: I understand the terminology, and why they chose it. I simply disagree with their choice, and have always found it confusing, esp. to anyone coming into it since, um, the mid/late 80's, when *everything* else in the world used the termin

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Chris Murphy
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: >> , or alternatively making the LVs >> redundant after install is a single command (each) and you can choose >> whether it should be mere mirroring or some MD manged RAID level (modulo >> the LVM RAID MD monitoring issue). > > > I hadn't re

Re: [CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:58:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:27:47PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > It's bad design. First, it's a nested mount: file system A on /, and > > file system B on /boot, and file system C on /boot/efi. Therefore the > > mount process mu

Re: [CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Jason Warr
On 6/26/2015 12:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:58:07 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:27:47PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: It's bad design. First, it's a nested mount: file system A on /, and file system B on /boot, and file system C on /boot/ef

Re: [CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-26 Thread James A. Peltier
Sorry, just a follow up to see if anyone has similar experiences with the method of kickstarting bridges on CentOS 7.1. According to the docs things are correct for 7.1 and I just want to make sure I'm not doing something incorrectly before filing a bug with Red Hat - Original Message

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Jason Warr
On 6/26/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: At the moment, LVM RAID is only supported with conventional/thick provisioning. So if you want to do software RAID and also use LVM thin provisioning, you still need to use mdadm (or hardware RAID). You can do thin pools as RAID[1,5,N], just not in

Re: [CentOS] /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-26 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:54:07AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > This makes no sense to me. rEFInd dynamically discovers linux kernel > updates, it doesn't need any regular configuration file changes. Once > you configure it, it's a static configuration file unlike grub.cfg or > extlinux.conf. > >