Re: XFS vs Ext4

2023-12-06 Thread Miles ONeal
We've never had any problems - these or any of the others mentioned. We've used XFS on single HDD and SSD physical workstations, but have since migrated those to VMs, so they're on hardware RAID now, as are most of our systems - whether VM or bare metal. Since we've not encountered a corrupt

Re: XFS vs Ext4

2023-12-04 Thread Miles ONeal
Sorry. We don't actually run clusters. They get called that, but they're really farms managed by LSF. From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Miles ONeal <0be99a30c213-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> Sent: Monday, December 4

Re: XFS vs Ext4

2023-12-04 Thread Miles ONeal
Cirrus isn't a lab, but we run clusters, have over a thousand workstations, and have many more infrastructure systems. We haven't used ext4 in a good while except on a few legacy hosts. xfs has been fast and stable. I don't recall the last time I saw fsck run, but it was before moving to xfs.

Re: Scientific Linux Advice

2021-06-29 Thread Miles ONeal
Yes, for better or worse, that's part of "binary compatible". If you need bugs fixed faster than RedHat is fixing them, you need to fix them yourself, or get someone else to. Sometimes you can find newer versions with fixes in other public repos, but again, the onus is on you to provide the fix

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread Miles ONeal
I see these for Fedora (thank you). Are they available for EL7 or derivatives? Nico said: Oh, heck, that's why I publish RPMs for tvtwm.

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-05 Thread Miles ONeal
The person doing test installs here of RHEL 8.3 wasn't any happier. It feels like a lot of the Linux developers are all trying to beat Windows and MacOS at their own games. Barf. From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Larry Linder

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Miles ONeal
FKonstantin said: ... | For me, the issues are not policital, but technical: Agreed. One of mine is that the surety of being able to drop a lower runlevel and back up is gone. I have always managed my systems the way I learned in the early days (probably from

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Miles ONeal
The concurrency argument was always absurd. It could easily gave been added to SysVInit. Get Outlook for