Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-06 Thread David Sommerseth
On 06/04/17 21:17, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> ... until ZFS is native in Linux ... >> ... My meaning of "native" is that it is included in the upstream Linux >> kernel, not a side-loaded product/project/kernel module. > > At least for BTRFS, "native" seems to be a bad thing. The BTRFS version

Re: Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

2017-04-06 Thread Ron Tapia
Hi, I'd like topoint out an often overlooked tool, graphviz (dot): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz It's included in SL: graphviz.x86_64 It is specifically for generating figures from graphs (lattices) specified in a very simple language (dot). It's not a general

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-06 Thread David Sommerseth
On 06/04/17 10:54, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth > wrote: >> >> ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native >> in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm >> not going that path

Re: fermilab-conf_doe-banner-console is not fully uninstalled by yum remove

2017-04-06 Thread Dan
On Sun, 2 Apr 2017, Dan wrote: Yesterday, I accidentally (as part of a more general yum install invocation with some wildcards in it) ran: yum install fermilab-conf_doe-banner-console This wrote a passage of text to /etc/motd, causing a vaguely threatening message, purporting to constitute a

Re: RAID 6 array and failing harddrives

2017-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:50 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: > > ZFS looks great, so does btrfs - on the paper. But until ZFS is native > in Linux or btrfs stabilizes on the same level as ext4 and XFS, I'm > not going that path for production environments. What do you

Re: Examples of customized grub2 configuration files?

2017-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > Hi, you may find it easier to do the work using the SYSLINUX/EXTLINUX > boot loader. > > In my experience, it takes less time to learn how to use syslinux from > zero, compared to doing anything at all

Re: Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

2017-04-06 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote: I am considering Inkscape as a technical illustration tool for latex documents (papers and book chapters). Suggestions for better tools? Inkscape would be my first choice, but I'd also consider xfig(included in SL6; for SL7 you may need to get it