Re: Debian version for zSeries

2010-11-17 Thread Philipp Kern
that the userspace is 31bit, and thus a single application cannot use more than 2G. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX

Re: Problems with DASD driver on SLES 11 SP1?

2010-11-22 Thread Philipp Kern
a chccwdev -d 0.0. even with an udevadm settle --timeout=20 afterwards, the file system gets corrupted, when I attach it to another guest. Did you make sure to run sync before chccwdev? (You could also use oflag=dsync but that would probably kill the copy performance.) Kind regards Philipp

Re: GPG Key Ring Generation on zLinux Fails

2011-05-20 Thread Philipp Kern
not recommended for secure key generation. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `-finger pkern/k

Re: cmsfs-fuse package in RHEL 6.1

2011-05-28 Thread Philipp Kern
regards, Philipp Kern [0] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0601.html [1] http://www.jur-linux.com/download/ftp.redhat.com/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/s390utils-1.8.2-36.el6.src.rpm [2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/s390-tools-1.13.0.html

Re: Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release

2011-08-23 Thread Philipp Kern
-march=z9-109 -mtune=z10. Why is that, given that the architecture level set changed between z9 and z10, not between z990 and z9? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager

Re: Fedora 15 for IBM System z 64bit official release

2011-08-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 03:43:48PM -0600, Mark Post wrote: On 8/23/2011 at 05:38 PM, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: Why is that, given that the architecture level set changed between z9 and z10, not between z990 and z9? Which ALS are you referring to? From the hardware size

Re: Regina on SLES 11 SP 1

2011-08-31 Thread Philipp Kern
be. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Stable Release Manager `. `' xmpp:p...@0x539.de Wanna-Build Admin `-finger pkern/k...@db.debian.org

Re: Regina on SLES 11 SP 1

2011-09-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:11:02PM +1200, Andrej wrote: On 1 September 2011 10:39, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: That might be worth considering for Linux You shouldn't do that there's the slightest possibility that you end up in an untrusted path (where somebody can drop

Re: HugePage support with RHEL

2011-09-01 Thread Philipp Kern
under z/VM 6.1 I also do not see 'edat' in /proc/cpuinfo, so hugepage support is emulated in software. And I can confirm that it's there on a z10 in LPAR mode. :) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff

Re: Redhat trying to patent netboot?

2011-10-01 Thread Philipp Kern
one of their efforts to stop anyone else making GUIs, smartphones, or whatever. and then getting buyed by some evil corporation who uses the patents against everyone else? (C.f. Sun and Oracle.) It's not that Sun was particularly hostile to open source. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: dasd_configure doesn't see partition 1 on RO disk

2011-10-16 Thread Philipp Kern
the one you want to be in sync. Forcing it is kind of the point of the [f][data]sync calls. That said, the sent I/O requests might remain in the cache of the storage and not actually be on any disk, but that's a different matter I presume. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: ssh tunnel NFS mounting

2011-10-21 Thread Philipp Kern
, but works just fine. Probably not so well if your desktop IP address is NATed. Or am I missing something? CIFS doesn't have problems with NAT traversal. NFS does. CIFS is a single TCP connection if you use IP-based URLs. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: FICON-Attached 3590 Tape Drives Not Detected

2011-11-05 Thread Philipp Kern
1503 ATTACHED TO ZLINUX1 1503 R/W NOASSIGN MULTIUSER However, the lstape command shows no drives: Did you set those devices online? Something like `chccwdev -e 0.0.1500' might help. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp KernDebian Developer : :' : http

Re: Please don't reply and change the subject

2012-01-28 Thread Philipp Kern
regards, Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390

Re: FCP vs EDEV for system - best practice?

2012-03-20 Thread Philipp Kern
, but single VMs? Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX

Re: FCP vs EDEV for system - best practice?

2012-03-20 Thread Philipp Kern
I found the advantage of PAV over single ECKD pretty severe with random read workloads. Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

Re: SAS

2012-03-31 Thread Philipp Kern
compiler tool chain? It's built from the normal gcc source, so yes. The Fortran compiler is written in C, so as long as the backend supports the target architecture we should be good to go. Anyway, R is shipped at least by Debian for z since ages. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: zLinux, IBM XIV, thin provisioning

2012-06-14 Thread Philipp Kern
of the corresponding IOCTL commands. You could try installing a file system on the bare disk (no LVM) and see if that works. At least on Debian you need to activate discard by setting issue_discards = 1 in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf's devices section. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Hipersockets over Guest LAN to MVS

2012-07-16 Thread Philipp Kern
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Re: SSH and LDAP/RACF

2012-07-24 Thread Philipp Kern
-ldap(d) in addition to libpam-ldap(d). Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: porting kicks

2012-08-09 Thread Philipp Kern
/post/2091092/a-year-with-mongodb 'nuff said. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: RPM install for the IBM JDK?

2012-09-19 Thread Philipp Kern
? Because the OpenJDK runtime that's in Debian is horribly slow on s390(x). Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO

Re: KVM on IBM System z

2012-09-26 Thread Philipp Kern
you get normal virtio disks and NICs. SUSE has patches to zipl to boot from virtio disks. On the Debian side we're still thinking whether we should apply them or not, given that they won't be integrated by IBM. (A silly upstream it is.) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Hurricane webserver

2012-10-30 Thread Philipp Kern
the two, and access to up to date data as opposed to (what sounds like) a copy of data being held in memory. OTOH if you're burning CP cycles for them it might not be as good to get rid of the caching layer. ;-) Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Porting between platforms - from Power 570 to z10?

2012-10-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:56:45PM +, OAKES Roger * ETS wrote: And please don't let them talk about z/Linux in LPAR mode. Why? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Install FEDORA problem (was Where to get zLINUX)

2012-11-28 Thread Philipp Kern
. They are dedicated Wintel people. Debian will work on z9. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Install FEDORA problem (was Where to get zLINUX)

2012-11-30 Thread Philipp Kern
to the reader. Punch files can only be 80 bytes, so the question is 'How can the root= parm be continued?'. Can't you simply continue on the next line? IIRC the lines 80 byte lines are simply concatenated without spaces. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Twin penguins prospered for 417 days, then died

2013-01-14 Thread Philipp Kern
when it's available. For the sake of Debian and others… Thanks! Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http

Re: Speed of BASH script vs. Python vs. Perl vs. compiled

2013-01-31 Thread Philipp Kern
probably not much as the encryption will not use multiple threads.) Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Speed of BASH script vs. Python vs. Perl vs. compiled

2013-01-31 Thread Philipp Kern
Rob, am Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:14:09PM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: On 31 January 2013 14:38, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: Also you should be able to do between 100MB/s to 1GB/s on 10 GE, which is My rule of thumb is that pumping 100 MB/s or so through the Linux TCP/IP stack

Re: SLES11SP2 Installation Problem

2013-03-07 Thread Philipp Kern
-mount that ISO on the server and export the result. You cannot loop-mount block devices over NFS. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

Re: Java in RHEL 6.3 on z/VM

2013-03-29 Thread Philipp Kern
a heated topic, but still I hate to see unsourced comments such as this. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390

Re: Java in RHEL 6.3 on z/VM

2013-03-30 Thread Philipp Kern
. ;-) Critique of the implementation can be very well warranted, but your initial remark seemed like it aims at criticizing the New Way™ instead of the implementation. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Empty /dev/urandom???

2013-04-08 Thread Philipp Kern
(4)). You don't need to seed urandom. True, the quality of the output wouldn't be great, but what's seen here should never happen and is clearly a bug. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive

Hangs with 3.2.41

2013-05-03 Thread Philipp Kern
. It is possible to issue a SysRq through OS Messages anyhow? Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] I cannot ask a vendor or open a PMR, in any case. -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Hangs with 3.2.41

2013-05-15 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 10:38:49PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: Does this ring a bell to anyone? Is there some known deadlock problem that has been fixed in a later kernel? If not, does somebody know how to debug that? I could try the dump process, but I'm not sure what I could do

Re: Anyone have any good Debian media for a z9

2013-05-24 Thread Philipp Kern
is the current version). Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/s390x/ch03s06.html.en#idp5389344 [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=installation-guide;dist=unstable [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=installation-reports;dist=unstable [4

Re: Query for Destination z article -- computer museums

2013-07-30 Thread Philipp Kern
-- www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ But I hadn't known about American Computer Robotics Museum -- www.compustory.com/ well, there's the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum[1] in Paderborn, Germany, which claims to be large. ;-) Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] http://www.hnf.de/en/ueber-uns.html

Re: Advice on Debian install on z?

2015-08-09 Thread Philipp Kern
tinkers with Debian on z, it will certainly die. This may or may not be in your interest. :) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Adding DASD to a Debian guest

2015-08-09 Thread Philipp Kern
). But then 3390-A are a DS8000-only feature, I guess? I liked it being arbitrary-sized very much. Of course there might be performance considerations, but not necessarily when you then need to tie six 3390-3 together for space reasons. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: zKVM installation problem

2015-10-06 Thread Philipp Kern
. Without having the code at hand I guess that s is only set in an "if" but who knows. It should at least have been initialized with something. At least you can just inspect the code given that it's Python. Kind regards Ph

Re: SSHD CPU spike

2015-07-09 Thread Philipp Kern
. Doing this, the failed logins went to zero. No more bots crawling around and bruteforcing my VPS. It should be enough to turn off PasswordAuthentication and ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no in sshd_config and simply use public key cryptography to login. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) for installation on zLinux?

2015-09-09 Thread Philipp Kern
have very few signatures for Linux anyway.) Yes, they say it's behavioral. I have yet to see a solution there that works. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Reply unreadable

2015-12-18 Thread Philipp Kern
mething wrong in display vs. reply. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.e

Re: TPM chip on z?

2015-12-18 Thread Philipp Kern
ryptoki comes from IBM ... It might just be dependency bloat. opencryptoki is a more generic PKCS#11 than just TPM as a backing storage. I think it supports Crypto Express as tokens? And then it might just have inherited the trousers dependency

Re: TCO comparison Intel vs EC12 IFLs

2016-02-02 Thread Philipp Kern
nds on how you connect the storage on x86. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or

Re: TCO comparison Intel vs EC12 IFLs

2016-02-02 Thread Philipp Kern
), which might impact your ability to admin the system. (Not saying in a bad way, but different from what people are used to on x86.) But is there any other significant technology that'd save memory? Both are 64bit, although x86 has more historical baggage around. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern

Re: linux memory

2016-04-06 Thread Philipp Kern
: If the application allocates a lot of virtual memory but its working set is small and would fit into RAM. There the size of the swap directly impacts if the memory requests will be satisfied by the kernel or not. This behavior can be tuned based on the information in [1]. Kind regards Philipp

Re: Ubuntu on z

2016-05-11 Thread Philipp Kern
, and if so, could you share some details? > If so, I could add it to the paper. Either on-list or off is fine. The Debian/Ubuntu approach is preseeding the installation[1]. This is not specific to System z either. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] https://w

Re: Back to the future?

2016-07-27 Thread Philipp Kern
Sometimes politicians think they need to play with the time definition and there are updates to the file. If you don't symlink you won't get them. (This zone in question might be unlikely to change but people said that about various timezones in the past and they changed, so...) Kind regards Phi

Re: 2016-07-21 Linux on z Systems - Kernel 4.5 related updates on developerWorks

2016-08-20 Thread Philipp Kern
w s390-tools soonish.) Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu

Re: systemd Failed unmounting /usr

2016-12-14 Thread Philipp Kern
ow you get systemd-analyze. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wl

Re: Root, sudo, su and preserving audit trail

2016-12-21 Thread Philipp Kern
g that, you can also introduce bastions that log all of their input/output and that are the only way to contact the sensitive machines behind them as a jump host. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Debian CPU limitation?

2017-03-25 Thread Philipp Kern
ll have to decide how to proceed :-) > As a last duty, can you maybe open a bug against Debian to bump the > max number of CPUs? This is now Debian bug #858731. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff /

Re: The Mainframe vs. the Server Farm: A Comparison

2017-05-25 Thread Philipp Kern
comes down to the trade-off question if you're willing to pay for the smart software and the smart brains to maintain it rather than paying IBM to provide service for the mainframe. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe /

Re: OT: Is there a setting that can prevent trash in the LINUX-390 archives?

2017-06-10 Thread Philipp Kern
7bit ASCII. But fix the mailing list, don't try to shard this out to the subscribers. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the me

Re: OT: Is there a setting that can prevent trash in the LINUX-390 archives?

2017-06-09 Thread Philipp Kern
course need to get to the text representation by converting the Content-Transfer-Encoding. In theory and in practice you also need to normalize charsets across the mails. Which I suppose is skipped as well.) Kind regards Philip

Re: How many Intel cores does an IFL emulate

2017-11-07 Thread Philipp Kern
well, > you're going to have to minimize CPU overcommitment. I idly wonder how actual utilization of IFLs looks like in the field. It's clear to me that CPs run hot because otherwise you're wasting moneys. I.e. if overcommitment is just a fact of life like it is in the cloud. Kind regards Ph

Re: How many Intel cores does an IFL emulate

2017-11-08 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On 08.11.2017 16:42, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Wednesday, 11/08/2017 at 03:17 GMT, Philipp Kern <p...@philkern.de> > wrote: >> I idly wonder how actual utilization of IFLs looks like in the field. >> It's clear to me that CPs run hot because otherwise you'r

Re: z/Linux 32-bit modules

2018-05-26 Thread Philipp Kern
ll them on the same system. For binaries you can only have a single variant installed. For libraries you can co-install multiple architectures. The latter is actually how I cross-compile for s390x on an amd64 system. And in theory you could even use qemu's user emulation mode to run binaries compiled

Re: z/Linux 32-bit modules

2018-05-26 Thread Philipp Kern
ge table design and lookup/TLB logic in software. You can maybe fake something on newer hardware but that'd be a large feat for dubious benefits. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: z/Linux 32-bit modules

2018-05-23 Thread Philipp Kern
code that cannot access more than 2GB of virtual memory. Is -m32 even a thing on s390x? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu

Re: z/Linux 32-bit modules

2018-05-28 Thread Philipp Kern
space, and 64 bit binaries with a 16 EiB address space, just like all competing platforms provide. x32 never took off either. And just because a platform provides it for compatibility doesn't mean it makes sense in today's times. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: Spectre and Meltdown stupid question...

2018-01-16 Thread Philipp Kern
that zVM. [...] What about DIAGNOSE hypercalls to z/VM? Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit

Re: Spectre and Meltdown stupid question...

2018-01-18 Thread Philipp Kern
umented that "PREFETCH DATA (RELATIVE LONG) signals the CPU to perform the specified operation, but it does not guarantee that the CPU will necessarily honor the request.". So I suppose a microcode update that disables the flushing is technically fair

Re: Spectre and Meltdown stupid question...

2018-01-16 Thread Philipp Kern
heir customers run untrusted code got a heads-up. Also the scarcity of these machines helps that researchers don't get around to test for the flaw on them. But that's the usual security by obscurity defence[1]. Kind regards Philipp Kern [1] As Martha pointed out, apparently updates are in fact available.

Fwd: s390x ISA raised to z196

2018-02-19 Thread Philipp Kern
that things keep running. They might experience more and more breakage in the process. Kind regards Philipp Kern Original Message Subject: s390x ISA raised to z196 Date: 2018-02-18 19:17 From: Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> To: debian-s...@lists.debian.org Hi all, Fol

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

2018-03-26 Thread Philipp Kern
zation generally doesn't nest either. It's possible but people don't do it. Also partitioning a machine is not a thing. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: /proc/sysinfo on other architectures?

2018-03-26 Thread Philipp Kern
s case VMware) about this. There is something to be said for not leaking all of this information. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu w

Re: 2FA in the Linux Terminal Server

2019-05-27 Thread Philipp Kern
the old Kerberos 4 server code that used to be part of VM TCPIP to current > levels), and all the Linux distributions already support it. Technically the acquired ticket is not two-factor, though. Instead it's a bearer token that does not require reauth for

Re: Google Chrome on Red Hat?

2019-06-02 Thread Philipp Kern
of Google products Go and v8 themselves got some porting love, one for Docker and the other for Node.js. Kind regards Philipp Kern (not speaking for Google in any capacity) -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: Building a Certificate Authority

2019-06-22 Thread Philipp Kern
But again you would not rely on continuous availability of the OCSP responder in that case. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with t

Re: Fwd: Future-Watch: Big changes to login and /home directory handling

2020-05-01 Thread Philipp Kern
ery clear design constraints around client systems. Kind regards Philipp Kern -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit ht

Fwd: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-11-09 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, Trying to increase visibility. Debian is looking for porters for s390x, lest they will likely drop the port going forward. You don't need to be a Debian contributor to help out, although it helps. [1] is the list for coordination. Kind regards and thanks Philipp Kern [1] https