Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-29 Thread Juergen Sauer
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Am 28.03.2014 13:29, schrieb Johan Kröckel:
 Hello,
 I am not sure whether this is the correct list, but I will try...
 I am on the way to deploy new server and already am using
 btrfs-volumes. At this point not for root, but in case a stable setup
 is possible, this would be cool, too.
 
 I don't want to use vanilla kernel because I like it when someone else
 is watching security issues for me.
 So the question is:
 Which source for the kernel binaries would you use, to get stable
 btrfs support together with mentioned service?
 I am asking, because I don't know how Red Hat and Debian (Backports
 channel) are dealing with backporting new btrfs code to their
 distributed kernels.

None is really usable for development,  IMHO.

For Development we prefer Arch Linux, it somewhat more Bare Linux,
mostly all packages made from unpatched and unmodified vanilla sources.

Debian and CentOS are for Development mucht to matrue, or harder
spoken, much too old.
If a product is ready for deployment, the other Debian / Ubuntu / SuSE /
Fedora / RedHat / CentOS got the Level of the system, which Arch had on
start time of development.

Then we enter package stage and depoy the product to the stable
Distributions.

On stable Setup/Server we prefer Debian or Ubuntu.

The Enterprise Distributions (aka. RHEL, SELS, CentOS) are looking to us
sometimes like software achrchelogy ...


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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-29 Thread Marc MERLIN
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:45:03PM +, Hugo Mills wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Lists wrote:
  On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote:
  Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs 
  fixes and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On 
  Oracle Linux 6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 
  mainline with upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix 
  errata for free viahttp://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to buy 
  support to run Oracle Linux at keep up-to-date.
  
  Can't remember asking if btrfs is supported on 32 bit kernels?
 
I can't speak for Oracle's distribution, but in the general case,
 yes, btrfs works on 32 bit systems.
 
On the subject of bitness, there's a couple of rough edges with
 64-bit kernels and 32-bit userspace. (I think there's still one ioctl
 that fails on that configuration, but I've not hit it yet on my test
 machine).

btrfs send does not work with 32bit userland and 64bit kernel when I
last tried it a few weeks ago.
Thankfully I had debian, so I was able to upgrade just btrfs-tools to
64bit without upgrading my entire system, and that solved it.

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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-29 Thread Hugo Mills
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 05:18:25PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:45:03PM +, Hugo Mills wrote:
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Lists wrote:
   On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote:
   Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs 
   fixes and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On 
   Oracle Linux 6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 
   mainline with upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix 
   errata for free viahttp://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to 
   buy support to run Oracle Linux at keep up-to-date.
   
   Can't remember asking if btrfs is supported on 32 bit kernels?
  
 I can't speak for Oracle's distribution, but in the general case,
  yes, btrfs works on 32 bit systems.
  
 On the subject of bitness, there's a couple of rough edges with
  64-bit kernels and 32-bit userspace. (I think there's still one ioctl
  that fails on that configuration, but I've not hit it yet on my test
  machine).
 
 btrfs send does not work with 32bit userland and 64bit kernel when I
 last tried it a few weeks ago.

 Thankfully I had debian, so I was able to upgrade just btrfs-tools to
 64bit without upgrading my entire system, and that solved it.

   That's the one I know about and patched some weeks ago :) (it
should be in btrfs-next by now).

   Hugo.


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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-28 Thread Avi Miller
Hi,

On 28 Mar 2014, at 11:29 pm, Johan Kröckel johan.kroec...@gmail.com wrote:

 Which source for the kernel binaries would you use, to get stable
 btrfs support together with mentioned service?

Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs fixes 
and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On Oracle Linux 
6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 mainline with 
upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix errata for free via 
http://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to buy support to run Oracle 
Linux at keep up-to-date.

Cheers,
Avi

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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-28 Thread Lists

On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote:

Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs fixes 
and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On Oracle Linux 
6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 mainline with 
upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix errata for free 
viahttp://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to buy support to run Oracle 
Linux at keep up-to-date.


Can't remember asking if btrfs is supported on 32 bit kernels?

-Ben
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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-28 Thread Hugo Mills
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 04:38:09PM -0700, Lists wrote:
 On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote:
 Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs fixes 
 and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On Oracle 
 Linux 6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 mainline 
 with upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix errata for 
 free viahttp://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to buy support to 
 run Oracle Linux at keep up-to-date.
 
 Can't remember asking if btrfs is supported on 32 bit kernels?

   I can't speak for Oracle's distribution, but in the general case,
yes, btrfs works on 32 bit systems.

   On the subject of bitness, there's a couple of rough edges with
64-bit kernels and 32-bit userspace. (I think there's still one ioctl
that fails on that configuration, but I've not hit it yet on my test
machine).

   Hugo.

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Re: RHEL/CentOS or Debian for stable deployment

2014-03-28 Thread Avi Miller
Hi,

On 29 Mar 2014, at 10:38 am, Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote:

 On 03/28/2014 02:42 PM, Avi Miller wrote:
 Have you considered Oracle Linux? We are continually backporting btrfs fixes 
 and enhancements to our Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel releases. On Oracle 
 Linux 6, you would run the UEK Release 3, which is based on 3.8 mainline 
 with upstream fixes. We also provide all security and bug fix errata for 
 free viahttp://public-yum.oracle.com, so you don’t need to buy support to 
 run Oracle Linux at keep up-to-date.
 
 Can't remember asking if btrfs is supported on 32 bit kernels?

We support btrfs on our 32-bit UEK Release 2 (labelled 2.6.39 but it’s actually 
3.0 under the hood. Yay userspace issues). However, our latest UEK Release 3 
(3.8 both labelled and under-the-hood) is only built for 64-bit and is highly 
recommended for production btrfs usage. We are no longer back porting mainline 
fixes into UEK Release 2 because the code has just moved on too far for it to 
be feasible.

So, while there is a 32-bit kernel with btrfs support, our recommendation is to 
use the 64-bit kernel on x86_64 hardware for the best experience.

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