Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Michelle Konzack wrote in part: >But use a self-compiled Linux with nfs and nfsd compiled WITH >"TCP" and "v3" support. >if you mount your server add "nfsvers=3,tcp" to it otherwise it >will use UDP which is realy not good. Why? from my (maybe wrong?) reading of the docs, t

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Michelle Konzack wrote in part: >But use a self-compiled Linux with nfs and nfsd compiled WITH >"TCP" and "v3" support. >if you mount your server add "nfsvers=3,tcp" to it otherwise it >will use UDP which is realy not good. Why? from my (maybe wrong?) reading of the docs, t

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
Hello! Just to be curious: I'm thinking for some time about using andrew fs, i.e. coda instead of NFS. I don't like NFS, due to complications with access rights (Yes, I use ugidd). But it sounds like the locking problem ist also not solved with coda, right? rgds, j. Andrew Miehs wrote: I sugges

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
I suggest you all read http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/NFS_README.html Especially the sentence 'Thus, Postfix on NFS is slightly less reliable than Postfix on a local disk.' Either something is reliable or not. there is no such thing as slightly less reliable. Especially when it

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
Hello! Just to be curious: I'm thinking for some time about using andrew fs, i.e. coda instead of NFS. I don't like NFS, due to complications with access rights (Yes, I use ugidd). But it sounds like the locking problem ist also not solved with coda, right? rgds, j. Andrew Miehs wrote: I sugge

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Miehs
I suggest you all read http://www.porcupine.org/postfix-mirror/newdoc/NFS_README.html Especially the sentence 'Thus, Postfix on NFS is slightly less reliable than Postfix on a local disk.' Either something is reliable or not. there is no such thing as slightly less reliable. Especially when i

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Maarten
On Saturday 17 April 2004 20:22, Michael Loftis wrote: > You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* > to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will > NOT work. Yeah Well My ISP, as have others undoubtedly, has their mailspools

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Christopher Sharp um 21:36: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is > >based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported by Debian - the > >only driv

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Michael, Am 2004-04-17 12:22:57, schrieb Michael Loftis: >You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* >to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will >NOT work. Experience with mailbox ;-) Right, if I open linux-kernel as mailb

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Sa, den 17.04.2004 schrieb Nathan Eric Norman um 18:22: > > > The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > > > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > > > > > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > > > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver),

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: >You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* >to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will >NOT work. > DO you KNOW what maildir IS? // George >--On Saturday, April

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Chad Cranston
I second that motion ! Just make sure that you are dumping only deliverd mail to an NFS mount. Keep the spools local. NFS + file locking don't mix. I chose ext3 for it's reliablity over ReiserFS. But it is GREAT having a small farm of M$ filtering servers (spam / virii) on the front end. -Chad

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michael Loftis
You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will NOT work. --On Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:51 -0400 Dan MacNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
I'll probably have to gin up my own iso. Perhaps I can create a boot floppy with cciss in the initrd in order to reboot and then compile a kernel. I have created a kernel already but it was too large to fit on the d-i boot floppy. huh? hard? If you have _lots_ of you may take a look at FAI (Full

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Maarten
On Saturday 17 April 2004 20:22, Michael Loftis wrote: > You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* > to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will > NOT work. Yeah Well My ISP, as have others undoubtedly, has their mailspools

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-04-17 12:51:32, schrieb Dan MacNeil: > >I've just converted from mbox to maildir > >Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect >this go grow. > >I expect this figure to grow. RaiserFS is looking good. > >The benefits of running a central storage server and a bunc

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
Dan MacNeil wrote: I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect this go grow. Even if it grows Factor 2 it's nothing you need to be afraid of with extX. Sometimes we have so many files in directory that "ls" overflows :-) I expect

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Mi, den 14.04.2004 schrieb Christopher Sharp um 21:36: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:11:26 +0100, Markus Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Having said that, the ProLiant ML330 come with an ATA-RAID which is > >based on an LSI chipset (MegaIDE) which is not supported by Debian - the > >only driv

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Michael, Am 2004-04-17 12:22:57, schrieb Michael Loftis: >You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* >to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will >NOT work. Experience with mailbox ;-) Right, if I open linux-kernel as mailb

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Markus Oswald
Am Sa, den 17.04.2004 schrieb Nathan Eric Norman um 18:22: > > > The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > > > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > > > > > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > > > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver),

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:00PM -0400, Dan MacNeil wrote: > > > The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > > > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once i

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread George Georgalis
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote: >You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* >to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will >NOT work. > DO you KNOW what maildir IS? // George >--On Saturday, April

RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect this go grow. I expect this figure to grow. RaiserFS is looking good. The benefits of running a central storage server and a bunch of seperate web/smtp/pop3/spamfiltering/ftp/ servers

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Chad Cranston
I second that motion ! Just make sure that you are dumping only deliverd mail to an NFS mount. Keep the spools local. NFS + file locking don't mix. I chose ext3 for it's reliablity over ReiserFS. But it is GREAT having a small farm of M$ filtering servers (spam / virii) on the front end. -Chad

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
> The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once installed, The network installer for sarge detects the t3 gig-ethernet ad

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michael Loftis
You can not, and DO NOT put your mail spool on NFS. You *WILL* have *HELL* to deal with. It WILL corrupt your users mail, it WILL lose mail. It will NOT work. --On Saturday, April 17, 2004 12:51 -0400 Dan MacNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
I'll probably have to gin up my own iso. Perhaps I can create a boot floppy with cciss in the initrd in order to reboot and then compile a kernel. I have created a kernel already but it was too large to fit on the d-i boot floppy. huh? hard? If you have _lots_ of you may take a look at FAI (Full

Re: SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Jody Grafals
Andrew Miehs wrote: You could try with PPP over SSH... But this will probably have pretty high latency times. Depends on the service you are trying to route... Is this for fun? or is this for commercial purposes... The idea of 'outside' traffic inside my development lan, doesn't sound like such a

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-04-17 12:51:32, schrieb Dan MacNeil: > >I've just converted from mbox to maildir > >Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect >this go grow. > >I expect this figure to grow. RaiserFS is looking good. > >The benefits of running a central storage server and a bunc

Re: RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Andreas John
Dan MacNeil wrote: I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect this go grow. Even if it grows Factor 2 it's nothing you need to be afraid of with extX. Sometimes we have so many files in directory that "ls" overflows :-) I expec

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Nathan Eric Norman
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:25:00PM -0400, Dan MacNeil wrote: > > > The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > > > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once i

RaiserFS via NFS

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
I've just converted from mbox to maildir Right now there are some users with 500 files in a directory, I expect this go grow. I expect this figure to grow. RaiserFS is looking good. The benefits of running a central storage server and a bunch of seperate web/smtp/pop3/spamfiltering/ftp/ servers

Re: SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Jody, It is better to start a new thread if you choose a new subject. Am 2004-04-17 09:58:59, schrieb Jody Grafals: >Cheers >Jody -- Registered Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/

Re: [mailinglists] SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Philipp Steinkrüger
Hi, why not use LVS (Linux Virtual Server) its a kernel-based load balancing system. check their web page: www.linuxvirtualserver.org afaik. be sure to check keepalived, too. its a userspace server managing the LVS system. great software... regars, philipp - Original Message - From: "

Re: debian on HP proliant

2004-04-17 Thread Dan MacNeil
> The installer from woody has built-in support for the cciss controller > on at least the Proliant DL 580 G2. > It works smoothly, but lacks support for the default installed 3com > gig-ethernet adapter (tg3 driver), once installed, The network installer for sarge detects the t3 gig-ethernet ad

Re: SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Jody Grafals
Andrew Miehs wrote: You could try with PPP over SSH... But this will probably have pretty high latency times. Depends on the service you are trying to route... Is this for fun? or is this for commercial purposes... The idea of 'outside' traffic inside my development lan, doesn't sound like suc

SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Jody Grafals
I've done some neat things in the past using SSH port forwarding, offering services from my local server on the internet via my public servers. Is there anyway I can forward all the traffic from a single IP on my Public server to my local server? Making a new kind of VPS (Virtual Public server

Re: SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Jody, It is better to start a new thread if you choose a new subject. Am 2004-04-17 09:58:59, schrieb Jody Grafals: >Cheers >Jody -- Registered Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: [mailinglists] SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Philipp Steinkrüger
Hi, why not use LVS (Linux Virtual Server) its a kernel-based load balancing system. check their web page: www.linuxvirtualserver.org afaik. be sure to check keepalived, too. its a userspace server managing the LVS system. great software... regars, philipp - Original Message - From: "

SSH More Than Port Forwarding

2004-04-17 Thread Jody Grafals
I've done some neat things in the past using SSH port forwarding, offering services from my local server on the internet via my public servers. Is there anyway I can forward all the traffic from a single IP on my Public server to my local server? Making a new kind of VPS (Virtual Public server