Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Miroslav Geisselreiter
If you can afford it I would prefer to use RAID10. You will loose half of disk space but you will get really faster system. It depends what you need / what you will use server for. Mirek 28.6.2019 at 7:01 Nicolas Kovacs: Le 27/06/2019 à 15:36, Nikos Gatsis - Qbit a écrit : Do I have to consi

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Nikos Gatsis - Qbit
Thank you all for your answers. Nikos. On 27/6/2019 4:48 μ.μ., Gary Stainburn wrote: I have done this a couple of times successfully. I did set the boot partitions etc as RAID1 on sda and sdb. This I believe is an old instruction and was based on the fact that the kernel needed access to t

Re: [CentOS] Webmin Login via Url including user and password

2019-06-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 07:42:06AM +0200, Ralf Prengel wrote: > is ist possible to enter webin using a url including user and password. > > I ve to give some users access to the bind module via a status-webpage. CentOS doesn't ship Webmin. I found a webmin mailing list for you: http://www.webmin

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 07:01:00AM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > 3. Here's a neat little trick you can use to speed up the initial sync. > > $ sudo echo 5 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min > > I've written a detailed blog article about the kind of setup you want. > It's in French, but t

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Nicolas Kovacs
Le 28/06/2019 à 14:28, Jonathan Billings a écrit : > You can't have actually tested these instructions if you think 'sudo > echo > /path' actually works. > > The idiom for this is typically: > > echo 5 | sudo tee /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_min My bad. The initial article used this instr

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Blake Hudson
Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote on 6/27/2019 8:36 AM: Hello list. The next days we are going to install Centos 7 on a new server, with 4*3Tb sata hdd as raid-5. We will use the graphical interface to install and set up raid. Do I have to consider anything before installation, because the disks

Re: [CentOS] iptables - how to block established connections with fail2ban?

2019-06-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 6/26/2019 2:41 AM, MRob wrote: > I am working to a CentOS 6 server with nonstandard iptables system without > rule for > ACCEPT ESTABLISHED connections. All tables and chains empty (flush by legacy > custom > script) so only filter/INPUT chain has rules (also fail2ban chain): > > Chain INPUT (

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 28.06.2019 um 16:46 schrieb Blake Hudson : > > Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote on 6/27/2019 8:36 AM: >> Hello list. >> >> The next days we are going to install Centos 7 on a new server, with 4*3Tb >> sata hdd as raid-5. We will use the graphical interface to install and set >> up raid. >> >> Do I

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Rob Kampen
On 29/06/19 2:46 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote on 6/27/2019 8:36 AM: Hello list. The next days we are going to install Centos 7 on a new server, with 4*3Tb sata hdd as raid-5. We will use the graphical interface to install and set up raid. Do I have to consider anything

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread mark
Just a comment: what RAID 6 (we use that instead of 5, as of years ago), was much larger storage. When you have, say, over 0.3petabytes, that starts to matter. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 6/28/19 4:46 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: Unfortunately, I've never had Linux software RAID improve availability - it has only decreased availability for me. This has been due to a combination of hardware and software issues that are are generally handled well by HW RAID controllers, but are of

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread Warren Young
On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Linux software RAID…has only decreased availability for me. This has been due > to a combination of hardware and software issues that are are generally > handled well by HW RAID controllers, but are often handled poorly or > unpredictably by

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-06-28 Thread John Pierce
> > > IMHO, Hardware raid primarily exists because of Microsoft Windows and VMware esxi, neither of which have good native storage management. Because of this, it's fairly hard to order a major brand (HP, Dell, etc) server without raid cards. Raid cards do have the performance boost of nonvolatil