Samba 4

2013-11-06 Thread Oliver Brakmann
Hi list, I'd like to know what Ubuntu's plans are for its samba package. Currently, Ubuntu has a stable samba package at 3.6.18 and a samba4 package that's basically unusable. In Debian, Samba has seen a lot of work during the last year or so, including the move from 3.6 to 4 and the removal of

Re: how to copy vtoc to a new disk?

2011-02-02 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On 2011-02-02 03:54, Asif Iqbal wrote: > How to apply the vtoc of /dev/sda to /dev/sdb ? > > On solaris I do it like this >prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2 > > I am looking at the man page of sfdisk and but not quite sure the > exact one liner sfdisk -d /dev/sda |

Re: facter and KVM

2011-01-27 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On 2011-01-27 15:51, Clint Byrum wrote: > Give yourself some credit, you were able to identify that its a problem > and file a cogent bug report. No, I meant I'm an idiot because I didn't see that it was fixed already. But in my defense, I checked the changelog on LP (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

Re: facter and KVM

2011-01-26 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On 2011-01-26 18:33, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > I'd agree too. Please make sure you file a bug and follow the rest of > those procedures described in that SRU wiki document, and this should > go painlessly. D'uh, I'm an idiot. I filed the bug now (it's #708080), and subsequently began setting up a

facter and KVM

2011-01-25 Thread Oliver Brakmann
Hi guys, on current Ubuntu releases (the latest LTS most notably), puppet's facter library does not recognize KVM virtual machines as virtual: $ facter | grep virtual is_virtual => false virtual => physical $ grep -i qemu /proc/cpuinfo model name : QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.12.3 This has

Re: Default use of caching on raw volumes

2010-09-01 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On 2010-09-01 21:19, Nikolai K. Bochev wrote: > And if testing shows things are ok, would there be any merit in changing > either libvirt or virt-manager to do this by default just for ubuntu ( not > really sure what upstream will do about it ) ? FWIW, I would welcome such a change myself. Add

Directory Server on Ubuntu?

2010-07-01 Thread Oliver Brakmann
Hello Devs, I'd like to ask about the current state of the directory server project for Ubuntu. The 389 directory server PPA hasn't seen any activity for the last year, but there has been some activity on blueprints for Lucid relating to the FreeIPA project. So, what is the current state? What i

Re: Ubuntu server GUI

2008-06-30 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On Fri, 2008-06-27 15:08, JAWUD wrote... > There are several options for a GUI. > [...] > The last option is to make a remote GUI system. I like that. > All the interfaces are just different front ends. So I think ubuntu needs a > configuration abstraction layer. Something like Augeas. Augeas can

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On Wed, 2008-03-05 16:23, Michael Hipp wrote... > >> Importantly, you can have data-loss on XFS if you lose power suddenly, > >> perhaps more so than ext3. When files get corrupted on XFS, I have > >> noticed they go to zero size > > > > I believe I read somewhere that that has been fixed some t

Re: XFS In Dapper [previously posted to ubuntu-users]

2008-03-05 Thread Oliver Brakmann
On Wed, 2008-03-05 17:04, David Kempe wrote... > XFS is good, we use it on dapper all the time. My largest XFS filesystem > is 5.5TB formatted. While I don't have such huge filesystems, I've been using XFS for ~6 years now, without any problems at all. > btw, one thing I found was that xfs_repai

Re: cloning edgy

2006-12-29 Thread Oliver Brakmann
Hi, On Thu, 2006-12-28 20:48, Ala Salman wrote... > When the cloned system boots, the network cards are detected at start up, but > the output of ifconfig -a shows that they are eth2 and eth3. I can only > bring up eth2. Adjust or remove /etc/iftab. > On the master node the output of df sh