Re: [CentOS-virt] Domain0 with Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen fails to boot Guests with Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5xen

2009-09-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:46:46PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am in a bit of a fix here, I have several Guests paravirtualized running on a Dom0 that is currently running the 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen Kernel. All my guests (administered by different people) have subsequently been

Re: [CentOS-virt] Domain0 with Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen fails to boot Guests with Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5xen

2009-09-27 Thread Devraj Mukherjee
Hi Pasi, On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:46:46PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: Hi all, I am in a bit of a fix here, I have several Guests paravirtualized running on a Dom0 that is currently running the 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5xen

Re: [CentOS-es] Canal IRC y Server

2009-09-27 Thread Ernesto Celis
El 26 de septiembre de 2009 11:52, Antonio Hernandez Benitez anto...@gmail.com escribió: Buen dia disculpen cual es el Server IRC y el canal supongos que centos-es de la lista de Centos-es #centos-es en irc.freenode.net Saludos Ernesto Celis (Usuario Linux #323140) irc.freenode.net

Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Sitio web

2009-09-27 Thread Rolando Arteaga
:) prueba a exportar el proxy para que tu sistema lo conosca. :) :) export http_proxy=[tu proxy]:[tu ip] :) :) Saludos. :) :) El 24/09/2009 18:00, Rolando Arteaga escribió: :) :) :) :) hola me da este error elyum y no he podido solucionarlo.. :) :) :) yum install php-mysql :) Could not retrieve

Re: [CentOS-es] Canal IRC y Server

2009-09-27 Thread Enrique Quezada
Buen dia disculpen cual es el Server IRC y el canal supongos que centos-es de la lista de Centos-es Hola en la red de FreeNode, debes entrar al canal #centos-es. Saludos. -- Enrique Quezada R. Linux Counter #417515 Freenode #centos-es ___

Re: [CentOS-es] Problemas con Nagios

2009-09-27 Thread Christian Araquistain
Hola, ese un error que tira cuando por error copiaste la definición de algùn host verifica eso como primera medida. Saludos ... 2009/9/26, Antonio Hernandez Benitez anto...@gmail.com: hice lo que me aconsejaste y cambien el nombre a buscador y me marco el mismo errror Warning: Duplicate

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I'd add in the search RHELyour release, at least to start. Beyond that, some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL. My advice for third-party applications: 1) Use RPMS from RPMForge repo. 2) If your

Re: [CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 05:16 +0200 schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com: Ok, this is what I did in the exact same situation (solution below gotten from the xen list). I use it religiously. Lucky I'm on both forums. ** First make sure your guest

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:13:04 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us a écrit : I'd add in the search RHELyour release, at least to start. Beyond that, some other distro, such as mandrake, may have compatible rpms. No! Never use Mandrake RPMS on RHEL.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 24/09/09 21:32, Paul Heinlein wrote: I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to the machine, /srv for stuff related to a specific service. In general, /var is machine-generated, /srv is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 15:17 +0200 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 24/09/09 21:32, Paul Heinlein wrote: I really wish RH would hop on the /srv bus. The broad distinction is fairly easy to grasp: /var for variable data of general interest to the machine, /srv for stuff related to a specific

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-27 Thread Drew
So I don't see consensus here. What if my served data ist variable data? An no distinction between man made or machine made is given here. Also this might not be flexible enough for some scenarios. Is the data being stored customer facing or internal to the machine? That's the rule of thumb I

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

2009-09-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Niki Kovacs wrote: Ron Blizzard a écrit : It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm and possibly advise when it might be expected back? I can't get to RPMforge.net either, but Dag Wieer's site is still up. I thought these were the same? Let's

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 32-bit and xen 3.4.0

2009-09-27 Thread Albert
Hi, I have a question about config file, if I create a guest bu using a virt-install, where the config is saved? I would like edit the config and add second disk to the virtual machine. When the root machine is a reboot, the all guest is running automatically, I was looking in /etc/xen/ but

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 32-bit and xen 3.4.0

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
Try posting on the xen list for a better answer. I found that the configs are managed by xend and are in; /var/lib/xend/domains/uuid-of-your-domU/config.sxp. The config format is somewhat diff now so I would get used to it, its good to have an extended toolset anyways. And what I mean by

Re: [CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
I have absolutely no clue why this is. Have you tried taking that img file and its config to another dom0 to see what happens? Try to have 2 xen dom0s set aside for testing, one at current production level and what at bleeding edge. This way you can test exsisitng domUs on both to see what

Re: [CentOS] mounting images created using dd that contain two partitions

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
Unsure what xen you are on. But I was using the stock version supplied by Centos and found that latest 3.4.1 rpms found at the gitco repo ( http://www.gitco.de/ repo/ ) fixed a lot of my problems. Centos/RHEL use 3.1.2 which blowz. On Sep 26, 2009, at 8:21 PM, Devraj Mukherjee wrote:

[CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread James Bensley
Hey List; I have no experience with software RAIDs; at work we only use hardware RAIDs and I'm looking to implement, probably a RAID 5 set up at home for a media server however I have a few questions; I have three 1TB drives in various places; one is inside a USB caddy, one is inside my PC and

[CentOS] SUMMARY : multipath using defaults rather than multipath.conf contents for some devices (?) - why ?

2009-09-27 Thread McCulloch, Alan
The reason for the behaviour observed below turned out to be that the device entry in /etc/multipath.conf was inadvertently appended *after* the devices section , rather than inside it - so that we had #devices { #device { #blah blah #} (file has a bunch of

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
few things; i'm not hip to the latest barney phife shareware utils that may allow some kind of dynamic raiding bs, but generally, no, you must format those drive to the desired fs after raiding them so back up all data u want housed (or hozed) on that new raid. basic math is that for a

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread James Bensley
2009/9/27 aurfal...@gmail.com: you must format those drive to the desired fs after raiding them Those where my initial thoughts, damn it! Hmm, going to have to bring a sand box server home from work, oh the hassle. Thanks for the confirmation though. ... md (software raid mechanism or watever

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
as a precaution, make a backup of your /etc/md.conf when all dun bulding the raid. good luck. i built a raid 6 using md as i had 40x1Tb drives to do. i tried raid 5 with 3 or 4 hot spares but couldn't get it to work like i wanted. i think its wise that for every 10 drives, do a hot spare

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 21:49 +0100, James Bensley wrote: 2009/9/27 aurfal...@gmail.com: you must format those drive to the desired fs after raiding them Those where my initial thoughts, damn it! Hmm, going to have to bring a sand box server home from work, oh the hassle. Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
craig, u can grow via md which is what u do first, then grow the fs. ex; mdadm --grow ... to add a drive then, mdadm --add ... to gorw the raid onto it then, pvresize ... to grow your filesystem onto it. atleast this is how i've dun it. On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Craig White wrote: On

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 32-bit and xen 3.4.0

2009-09-27 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:02 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Try posting on the xen list for a better answer. What xen list would that be? http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt deals with Xen and other methods of virtualization. ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 32-bit and xen 3.4.0

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
xen-us...@lists.xensource.com might as well go to the source. On Sep 27, 2009, at 2:37 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:02 -0700, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Try posting on the xen list for a better answer. What xen list would that be?

[CentOS] Dependency Hell!

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
I am in dependency HELL Trying to install keypassx for CentOS. All of my other systems have it and have to use it for work. Great little component however Had to reformat my linux box and start over. (next time make backup!_ very nice) ___ CentOS

[CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
Been trying to figure out what in the screwball world is going on with this. Tried to install libqt4 and keep getting more dependencies and more dependencies on top of that. Just trying to install KepassX for i386 CentOS 5 Any help? ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Dependency Hell!

2009-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
Eric Clark wrote: I am in dependency HELL Trying to install keypassx for CentOS. All of my other systems have it and have to use it for work. appears to be an RPM in the testing repo here http://rpm.razorsedge.org/ for el4 and el5 at least. ___

[CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
Hey everyone, My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ago and like a lot of people I haven't ever really made backups on a regular basis. So I was looking into backup solutions which will save me from this situation again. Now I have Bacula setup, and backing up my files onto my home

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
For backups I would actually look at a NAS Server dual bay or quad bay 1TB x 2 or 3 drives The NAS is pretty simple to setup and would require network backups and accessibility however you could actually do them in NTFS so that you could backup windows machines as well.

[CentOS] rsync not getting all files?

2009-09-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I ran rsync on a combination of Ubuntu and CentOS systems and it doesn't seem to grab all files, such as .cshrc or .bashrc (and they do exist). This makes me wonder what other files rsync may be missing, and how do I tell rsync to grab those missing files? Thanks.

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Tom
What are you using to install the package? Rpm? Yum? --Original Message-- From: Eric Clark Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: centos ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Sent: Sep 27, 2009 3:16 PM Subject: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell Been trying to figure out what in the

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
I have tried to install just about everything dealing with qt4 I had this problem before however dont remember how I solved it. On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Tom ml...@doublevision.gotdns.com wrote: What are you using to install the package? Rpm? Yum? --Original Message-- From:

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
Hello Eric, I've actually looked into NAS, but I wanted to escape using a hard drive based solution. Besides using Bacula on my server is basically the same thing as it backs up all the machines on my network :). I guess I'll have to settle with using a hard drive based solution if I want to

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.11) is needed by package keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386 (/home/dtscorp/Desktop/LINUX_ PKGS/keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386.rpm) Missing Dependency: libQtGui.so.4 is needed by package keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386

Re: [CentOS] Dependency Hell!

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 27/09/09 23:12, Eric Clark wrote: I am in dependency HELL Trying to install keypassx for CentOS. the author used to provide a static build, whieh is what I've been using - the last time I tried to build that against the centos-5/qt4 it required actual code changes - which is something

Re: [CentOS] rsync not getting all files?

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 27/09/09 23:54, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I ran rsync on a combination of Ubuntu and CentOS systems and it doesn't seem to grab all files, such as .cshrc or .bashrc (and they do exist). This makes me wonder what other files rsync may be missing, and how do I tell rsync to grab those missing

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 00:17, Eric Clark wrote: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.11) is needed by package keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386 (/home/dtscorp/Desktop/LINUX_ yes, well - what distro was that binary rpm built for ? ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
NAS has actually gotten very effective You may want to take a look at the D-Links and Buffalo NAS Servers for having the backup info on. This may be a very good alternative over the long run as well becuase the NAS will be on 24/7 and draw alot less electricity than a full blown server..

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Tom
If you use yum it should download and install dependencies for you. -Original Message- From: Eric Clark eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:58:28 To: CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
Tried Yum, and Yum says Nasty! On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Tom ml...@doublevision.gotdns.com wrote: If you use yum it should download and install dependencies for you. -Original Message- From: Eric Clark eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:58:28 To: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386 Fedora 11, I am going to try FED 10 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 28/09/09 00:17, Eric Clark wrote: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.11) is needed by package keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 00:28, Eric Clark wrote: keepassx-0.4.1-4.1.i386 Fedora 11, I am going to try FED 10 On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org mailto:mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 28/09/09 00:17, Eric Clark wrote: Missing Dependency:

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Tom
Does yum error? -Original Message- From: Eric Clark eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:27:49 To: CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi, On 27/09/09 23:40, M. Hamzah Khan wrote: The only other option I could think of is to use tapes, but this option can be quite pricy for a home user. With the cost of nearline, online media reducing all the time - tapes is bit of a black hole these days. Just think about what you want to

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
Well, I am really new at the linux game and have decided to try it out on a different computer. It is kind of hard to find RPM's for CentOS as well, and the ones that usually work for Fedora 10 can work with Cent. I am not saying all the time, but some of the time. So yeah, i am just trying

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
md (software raid mechanism or watever u wanna call it) allows u to grow so if your raid is formatted with an fs that allows u to grow, then u r good to go (lvm will allow u to grow). This was also my current belief, again thanks for confirming that. you will not be able

Re: [CentOS] libqt4-qt3support Dependency Hell

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 01:20, Eric Clark wrote: It is kind of hard to find RPM's for CentOS as well, and the ones that usually work for Fedora 10 can work with Cent. Take a look at http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories - most of what people want is already in the main repo's - if not, many people are happy

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: craig, u can grow via md which is what u do first, then grow the fs. ex; mdadm --grow ... to add a drive He meant --add or -a then, mdadm --add ... to gorw the raid onto it He meant --grow + changes in size/numofdevices/yadayada then, pvresize ... to

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 27/09/09 21:32, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: few things; i'm not hip to the latest barney phife shareware utils that may allow some kind of dynamic raiding bs, but generally, no, you must format those drive to the desired fs after raiding them so back up all data u want housed (or hozed) on

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 27/09/09 21:32, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: few things; i'm not hip to the latest barney phife shareware utils that may allow some kind of dynamic raiding bs, but generally, no, you must format those drive to the

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:40:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hey everyone, My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ago and like a lot of people I haven't ever really made backups on a regular basis. So I was looking into backup solutions which will save

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 27, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 27/09/09 21:32, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: few things; i'm not hip to the latest barney phife shareware utils that may allow some kind of dynamic raiding bs, but generally, no, you

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote: Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5? According to Neil Brown, yes. erm, that would be quite interesting, since you cant split the raid-0 without first moving data into some state of sanity first. Can you point out where Neil says its something that

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
Can you say; Use a sledge hammer to pound in a nail? While its nice to expand ones technique, regardless of time and resources, the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. On Sep 27, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 27/09/09 21:32, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: few

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 02:19, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Can you say; Use a sledge hammer to pound in a nail? While its nice to expand ones technique, regardless of time and resources, the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. Thats a commpletely irrelevant statement. No matter what

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote: Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5? According to Neil Brown, yes. erm, that would be quite interesting, since you cant split the raid-0 without first moving data into some state of sanity first. Can you point

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 02:10, Robert Heller wrote: I don't really think external hard drives are that great considering they are just as reliable as internal hard drives which would be pointless as RAID1 should be reliable enough in that case. The point to using an external hard drive is that unlike the

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 02:11, Ross Walker wrote: Eg. to convert this setup into a raid-5 : start with a 1 disk raid-1 degraded, move a disks worth of data onto there, bring in the second disk and let them sync into a 'normal' raid1 state, then convert that into a raid-5 with the 3rd disk. then bring in

[CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

2009-09-27 Thread Buz Davis
First, let me apologize to Akemi Yagi for my delay in answering his last query. After failing with 4.8 I realized that I had at least one and possibly two computers capable of handling 5.3 (one was newly purchased second-hand and had many unknowns about it. The other was well documented

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - kickstart configuration

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Bill, On 26/09/09 16:03, Bill Campbell wrote: rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' will give you more useful output for kickstart Except that jumpstart likes packages which that will not provide, only the individual RPMs. Can you expand a bit on what you mean by 'jumpstart likes packages' ?

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
have you tried your advice cause it sounds like a bunch of theory. give advice you've actually tried instead of sounding like some academic. back it up and build the raid from scratch instead of some theory non sense. On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 28/09/09 02:19,

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
so you're giving advice based on what you're read? know that my advice is stuff i've actually done. On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: On 28/09/09 02:12, Christopher Chan wrote: Can you convert a RAID0 to a RAID5? According to Neil Brown, yes.

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: so you're giving advice based on what you're read? 1) You do not use --grow to add a device. 2) You do not use --add to grow a device 3) I did not give advice know that my advice is stuff i've actually done. Oh no doubt. Does that mean you do not make

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:24 -0500, Eric Clark wrote: NAS has actually gotten very effective You may want to take a look at the D-Links and Buffalo NAS Servers for having the backup info on. This may be a very good alternative over the long run as well becuase the NAS will be on 24/7 and

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 02:52, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: have you tried your advice cause it sounds like a bunch of theory. give advice you've actually tried instead of sounding like some academic. because you are unaware of things does not mean it does not happen. I've reshaped raid's dozens of time

Re: [CentOS] External Backup Systems?

2009-09-27 Thread M. Hamzah Khan
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 21:10 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:40:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hey everyone, My home server just had a disk failure a few weeks ago and like a lot of people I haven't ever really made backups on a

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
yea, it means u never done it yourself. On Sep 27, 2009, at 7:02 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: so you're giving advice based on what you're read? 1) You do not use --grow to add a device. 2) You do not use --add to grow a device 3) I did not give advice know

[CentOS] rsync followup - what did I run?

2009-09-27 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Many people have wondered what my rsync syntax was - [as root]: rsync -av /path/to/source m...@remote-host:/path/to/dest I'll be adjusting it to adapt to perform incrementals, probably with --update. So, just need to learn why some of the .dotfiles, and other unknown files (unless I ran a

Re: [CentOS] Using yum with CentOS-2 mirrors

2009-09-27 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:20 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 9-23-2009 11:41 PM Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) spake the following: I understand that CentOS-2 has now reached its EOL but we have a legacy application that won't run on newer distros. EOL means there

Re: [CentOS] Using yum with CentOS-2 mirrors

2009-09-27 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 24/09/09 07:41, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: I was having yum errors while updating our CentOS-2 box. Further reading lead me to a readme file on the mirrors

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
You have me there. I've only done perhaps 6 sw based Raids because I would only use hw Raids for production data, so I sleep better at night. Tell me, you ever support your Frankenstein contraptions? A kind invite and I'm sure we would have a good time talking shop but I'm not in Europe

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 28/09/09 04:20, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: You have me there. I've only done perhaps 6 sw based Raids because I would only use hw Raids for production data, so I sleep better at night. Tell me, you ever support your Frankenstein contraptions? I am not sure what h/w raid you are using -

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread aurfalien
To me, a storage developer and there technique is very different then using plain old mdadm for sw raids within a Linux distro. I know vendors like Bluearc, Netapp, etc spin there own firmware, ie software but thats very very diff then mdadm within the OS. And yes, i could do for more

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 28/09/2009, at 5:33 AM, James Bensley wrote: Hey List; I have no experience with software RAIDs; at work we only use hardware RAIDs and I'm looking to implement, probably a RAID 5 set up at home for a media server however I have a few questions; I have three 1TB drives in various

Re: [CentOS] problem installing CentOS 5.3

2009-09-27 Thread Eric Clark
You may want to do a memtest with your computer Boot to linux, and type memtest86 let it run for about 10 or 20 minutes with the ram that you have installed Typically anything over 6 errors on a 512 stick will bring mayhem to an OS, I am using a Failing ram stick on mine, becuase It is a dev

Re: [CentOS] Software Raids Questions (I have only ever used hardware?)

2009-09-27 Thread Christopher Chan
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: yea, it means u never done it yourself. Yes, I do not do raid5. That does not mean I have not used mdadm. I do raid1+0 (not raid10) and I do not see how that disqualifies me from pointing out that you have the wrong flags for the intended result. I also do raidz