OT: any RHEL consultants out there?

2007-08-30 Thread Keith Lofstrom
A friend in Washington state needs some short term consulting help with some RHEL Server 3 and Server 4 systems. Non-tech mixed-OS company, about 100 users. Alpha geeks please. Email me for more info, off the list (please forgive the OT list abuse). Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PR

Re: rsync error on large directories?

2007-08-30 Thread Daniel Widyono
> Volume of data isn't the only measure of "large" - the number of files > is important too. I started having problems at about 45K - 50K files per directory, using ext3 (pre-hashed-b-trees). I forget total # files in top level. This particular issue wasn't rsync-specific, however. > It also u

Scientific Linux on a DELL 2900

2007-08-30 Thread Aldo Saavedra
Hi, I'm wondering if anybody has installed scientific linux on a DELL 2900 . We are looking to purchase one that is dual processor with 4Gb of RAM and a RAID 1 system for a number SATA disks. My main worry is whether if drivers exist for its RAID controller called PERC5/i in SL3 which is the

Re: rsync error on large directories?

2007-08-30 Thread John Summerfield
Nathan Moore wrote: Hi, I've been using rsync as a primitive backup tool on a small cluster of SL45 and SL5 machines. Lately, there is an intermittant error when I run rsync to backup a large (20GB) directory of mixed file types. The error isn't a loud failure, but rather just that the filetra

rsync error on large directories?

2007-08-30 Thread Nathan Moore
Hi, I've been using rsync as a primitive backup tool on a small cluster of SL45 and SL5 machines. Lately, there is an intermittant error when I run rsync to backup a large (20GB) directory of mixed file types. The error isn't a loud failure, but rather just that the filetransfer stalls and the n