Re: firewire vs USB2 for Maxtor 5000DV (was: FireWire HDD problem)

2003-08-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Laurent GUERBY wrote: > Will newer Red Hat releases / kernel versions get better performance > and plug/unplug behaviour? Any other user experience with this drive? usb2 in the kernel is very new and performance is not the best. i get about 50% more performance from firewire

Re: FireWire HDD problem

2003-08-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Rishabh Kumar Goel wrote: > I have a Bencent 3.5" FireWire HDD. I also have a TI's TSB43ab22 iOHCI PCI > card with a PCI-PCI bridge interface. You have to set the drive for cable select, not master or slave. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] _

RE: ACL in Red Hat

2002-11-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Todd Lee wrote: > I can't figure out how come most *nix'es don't support ACL's by default? > I think it's pretty necessary to have ACL support in file servers. Current linux NFS doesnt support ACL does it? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] __

Re: OpenSSH

2002-06-26 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Craig Kelley wrote: > I know you're all probably aware of this by now, but a serious hole is in > all versions of OpenSSH shipped with all versions of RedHat: > http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/278818/2002-06-23/2002-06-29/0 does any redhat ship with 'ChallengeRes

Re: Build/Development environments...

2002-06-14 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, James Olin Oden wrote: > The only issue with that is how well it scales. Also, I quickly did > look at it and it looks like you have to provide a file per environment > (i.e. representing the HD). I bet you could have that file live on a NFS > mount, but again I wonder how i

Re: ReiserFS in Installations

2002-05-03 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 3 May 2002, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > So what is so special about ReiserFS? I have had bad repeatable data corruptions with XFS across numerous production systems with various kernel versions and various XFS releases. So I have had to stop using it :-( Never had any data corrupti

Re: A Red Hat user's introduction to Debian

2002-05-01 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Kevin Waterson wrote: > I found this little article in my mail and > would like to hear any thoughts? > http://debian-br.sourceforge.net/txt/debian_vs_redhat.html "unconvincing" -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] __

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: > It would depend on the application ... ext3 is actually better for > some applications (according to a quick web search a while back, a > "real world" benchmark with some databases showed ext3 a winner). > ReiserFS on the other hand was optimized for Sq

Re: Alternative file systems? Was Re: Better File systems?

2002-04-18 Thread Dan Hollis
On 18 Apr 2002, Florin Andrei wrote: > 3. XFS > This is interesting, because the XFS code base is actually very mature > and stable. That's why, i guess, the Linux port became stable so > quickly: because only the Linux "hooks" had to be made stable, while the > core was already mature. xfs is st

Re: New Openssh packages? When?

2002-03-07 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > OpenSSH 3.1 also requires OpenSSL 0.9.6 or newer to build, which we > haven't backported to 6.2. I'm sure this isn't going to be pretty. openssl 0.9.6a compiles out of the box for 6.2 without a single problem. ive been running openssh3.0 and openssl

Re: gcc-2.96 mmx bug? (mplayer)

2001-10-25 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Alex Kanavin wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > > Or just use avifile. I'm not familiar with it though, but I hope the > > > developers are not as arrogant. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I will not touch mplayer with a pole. > Well, having said a