[CentOS] CentOS 7, as a 6in4 server

2020-12-01 Thread Walter H.
Hello, I have a VPS at a hoster where I got 3 /64 ipv6 prefixes/subnets, that are routed; one for the VPS itself  - let us call this  srvprefix one for the tunnel, only ::1 (server side) and ::2 (home side) are used - let us call this tunnelprefix and one for my network at home - let us

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade OpenSSH version to the latest stable version on CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core).

2020-12-01 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Dec 1, 2020, at 00:49, Peter wrote: > > On 1/12/20 4:04 pm, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> I am running CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core). Is there a way to >> upgrade OpenSSH version openssh-7.4p1-21.el7.x86_64 to the latest stable >> version openssh-server 8.4 using yum repositories or rpm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/1/20 3:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: If anyone can explain the exact meaning of --metadata, I'd be grateful. I think the man page is pretty clear on that one.  There are two different versions of the metadata block, and the second one (1.x) can be stored at different locations

[CentOS-docs] [centos/centos.org] branch master updated (ad2e60b -> 997042e)

2020-12-01 Thread git
This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. rbowen pushed a change to branch master in repository centos/centos.org. from ad2e60b Removed inactive Node4 sponsor add 997042e Wow. That was really out of date. No new revisions were added by this update. Summary

[CentOS] CentOS and mdadm

2020-12-01 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Hi, I'm regularly using software RAID for my CentOS storage servers, either with RAID 1 or RAID 6 depending on the number of disks. Here's two questions about mdadm I've always been wondering about. 1. I'm not sure about the --metadata option. Let's say I want to create a simple RAID 1 setup,

Re: [CentOS] Physical position of swap partition on the disk

2020-12-01 Thread John Pierce
On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 2:53 AM Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Finally, swap throughput really matters when hibernating to disk. > > And that's really the only time it should matter on a modern system,. I rarely see /any/ swap in use for normal server or workstation operations

Re: [CentOS] Physical position of swap partition on the disk

2020-12-01 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 11/30/20 1:55 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: On Nov 30, 2020, at 02:35, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: * /dev/sda1: 500 MB /boot ext2 * /dev/sda2: 4 GB swap * /dev/sda3: 55 GB / ext4 I'd be curious to know what's the reason behind this, and if this kind of configuration detail is really