Re: [CentOS] Kickstart ksdevice question

2017-11-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- On 3 Nov, 2017, at 09:13, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: | On Fri, 3 Nov 2017, Mark Haney wrote: | |> On 11/01/2017 05:02 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: |>> Leaving ksdevice= off the command line will prompt you for the location of |>> the kickstart file and the

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart ksdevice question

2017-11-01 Thread James A. Peltier
of the hardware more often than eth0/eth1/... | | -- | Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Leaving ksdevice= off the command line will prompt you for the location of the kickstart file and the

Re: [CentOS] yum update problem - dependancy problem

2017-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
not use the atrpms. | | Gary | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 7

Re: [CentOS] AMD Ryzen and CentOS

2017-06-29 Thread James A. Peltier
xt version will work | properly with Ryzen? | | Yves Bellefeuille | <y...@storm.ca> | | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Gr

Re: [CentOS] [OT]multi-master DNS

2017-06-29 Thread James A. Peltier
Sure! Feel free to contact me off list. We're also looking at reengineering our DNS/DHCP infrastructure and some of the ideas might be good to discuss with you some of your ideas - On 28 Jun, 2017, at 09:47, Tris Hoar trish...@bgfl.org wrote: | On 27/06/2017 00:49, James A. Peltier wrote

Re: [CentOS] [OT]multi-master DNS

2017-06-26 Thread James A. Peltier
rg | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engageme

Re: [CentOS] selinux problem policies

2017-04-30 Thread James A. Peltier
getattr lock | open))) | . | | or is a other way to include policies better ? | -- | mit freundlichen Grüssen / best regards | | Günther J. Niederwimmer | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kerberized-nfs - any experts out there?

2017-03-22 Thread James A. Peltier
| question (within reason). Are there any "super specialist" | consultants out there who deal in Kerberized NFS? | | Thanks! | Matt | _______ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. P

Re: [CentOS] Anyone ever gotten Solaris to install from a CentOS PXE server?

2017-03-20 Thread James A. Peltier
fore? I'm trying to set Solaris 11.3 up. | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 dhcpd failure to allow a 2nd network over same interal nic

2017-01-15 Thread James A. Peltier
ould sure appreciate your help. | | Greg Ennis | | | | -- | Greg Ennis | PoMec Corporation | www.PoMec.Net | | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Rese

Re: [CentOS] CentOS iSCSI Install & Booting

2016-11-18 Thread James A. Peltier
| ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http

Re: [CentOS] GRUB 2 dumps to grub prompt when installed on >4TB disk

2016-08-23 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: | > | > | > When running grub2-install from within recovery mode I can assure you it is | > not a user error because simply installing the grub2-efi-modules package |

Re: [CentOS] GRUB 2 dumps to grub prompt when installed on >4TB disk

2016-08-22 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:59 PM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: | > | > | > - Original Message - | > | On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> | > | wrote: | > | > Hi All, | > | &

Re: [CentOS] Centos7 kickstart & pxe

2016-08-19 Thread James A. Peltier
er to your client using the 'ks=' parameter. the installation media can be from a local rsync of the CentOS repository (to save money) or to a mirror of your choice that may be local to you. Feel free to ask any questions. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser U

Re: [CentOS] GRUB 2 dumps to grub prompt when installed on >4TB disk

2016-08-19 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, James A. Peltier <jpelt...@sfu.ca> wrote: | > Hi All, | > | > I have a Dell R710 that has 6x1TB in a RAID-5 configuration. | | | This is hardware RAID 5? Because it's pretty screwy how this ends up | working when

[CentOS] GRUB 2 dumps to grub prompt when installed on >4TB disk

2016-08-18 Thread James A. Peltier
ERC RAID controller to make the disk smaller ROOTDISK volume of 100GB in size and then a DATA volume of the rest of the disk the system boots just fine so this seems like a GRUB2 issue. Any thoughts? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Cam

Re: [CentOS] resize lvm

2016-05-06 Thread James A. Peltier
-- | Scott Robbins | PGP keyID EB3467D6 | ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) | gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 if you use pass the '-r' option to lvextend it will resize the volume for you based on the filesystem that is on the volume. no need to grow it manually

Re: [CentOS] Extending a CentOS disk without reboot

2015-12-21 Thread James A. Peltier
n this case I just rescan the bus to see the new size, do a pvscan/presize and then expand the VGs or LVs as necessary. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca W

Re: [CentOS] firewalld clue needed

2015-12-14 Thread James A. Peltier
terfaces is quite nice. I think the idea that rulesets are put into place and rarely change is becoming less and less true in cloud like environments. A well built firewalld system can deal with these types of environments a bit better IMHO. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] Poor perfmance of bridged interfaces

2015-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
the two interfaces and then create a bridge to that team or bond device. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter

Re: [CentOS] Poor perfmance of bridged interfaces

2015-11-12 Thread James A. Peltier
interfaces on the same lan? You're likely creating the topology loop with this configuration. What is it that you're attempting to do here? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt

Re: [CentOS] EFI netboot to kickstart install

2015-10-23 Thread James A. Peltier
RPMS or placing files on our TFTP server (other than iPXE) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.6, apparent xfs corruption

2015-09-21 Thread James A. Peltier
g_force: error 5 returned. Do you have any XFS optimizations enabled in /etc/fstab such logbsize, nobarrier, etc? is the filesystem full? What percentage of the file system is available? Some optimizations will cause a similar type of error when there is insufficient space for the extent allocations

Re: [CentOS] OOM and Swappiness

2015-09-16 Thread James A. Peltier
nd that's not counting the small SGI | > supercomputer) | | Do you really run Centos on the SGI ? | | | -- | Regards, | | Paul. | England, EU. England's place is in the European Union. I ran CentOS on SGI for years. Worked pretty well. Also helped that I worked for SGI prior to that

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
creates virtual mount points on demand and so if there are existing directories already in place it will fail. Stop autofs. Move the /home out of the way. Start automounter and than do an ls /home. It should "just work" -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Si

Re: [CentOS] Remote auth against Active Directory

2015-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
)? Or is there some other way to solve this problem? | | -- | Chris Adams <li...@cmadams.net> Disconnected operation may require you to have a local authentication service. For that I would suggest FreeIPA which can become a Tier-1 member of an Active Directory service. -- James A. P

Re: [CentOS] automounter with users home directories on centos 7.

2015-09-09 Thread James A. Peltier
ome is a directory by default on all GNU/Linux hosts. If you plan to use it as a mount point then you need to remove the directory and then start autofs otherwise there will be a conflict. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone :

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Bind and DLZ support

2015-08-27 Thread James A. Peltier
; nor should I be doing this on the AD directly. In our case, we just define the zones that the AD servers should be allowed to update, such as the _msdcs, _sites, _tcp and _udp zones, and assign the BIND servers as slaves. It seems to work but YMMV -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Bind and DLZ support

2015-08-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | | On 08/27/2015 12:49 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | - Original Message - | | Is DLZ support enabled in the Centos 7 bind? | | | | building a Samba/sernet AD, and this looks to be the best way to handle | | the DNS needs of the AD. | | | | thanks

Re: [CentOS] please block user

2015-08-26 Thread James A. Peltier
) that it is not. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology

Re: [CentOS] sed question

2015-08-25 Thread James A. Peltier
:notificationIdCANCELID/v1:notificationId | | it gets changed to $CHANGE instead of the actual value 1234 . | I tried putting a \ in front of the $ also and made no difference. | | What am I not doing correctly. | | Thanks, | | jerry Single quotes = literal. Double quotes = interpreted ;) -- James A. Peltier

[CentOS] Inappropriate Message From Reply to List

2015-08-25 Thread James A. Peltier
applied to. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 8/4/2015 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | Some older 32-bit software will likely have problems addressing any content | outside of the 2^32 bit inode range. You will be able to see it, but | reading and writing said data will likely be problematic

Re: [CentOS] xfs question

2015-08-04 Thread James A. Peltier
addressing any content outside of the 2^32 bit inode range. You will be able to see it, but reading and writing said data will likely be problematic -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] install nvidia driver on centos 7.1

2015-07-20 Thread James A. Peltier
|grep nvidia doesn’t show anything in epel. | | EPEL is not elrepo ... | | | http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php You can also use the CUDA repo to get the latest nVidia drivers. Both ELRepo and CUDA set the values for you. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to IdM

2015-07-13 Thread James A. Peltier
) | users that are not in LDAP/AD; can there be local passwords for users; | etc.etc. Should CentOS7 be considered over CentOS6? | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier

Re: [CentOS] Bonds Bridge best practices

2015-07-09 Thread James A. Peltier
do it your way. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology

Re: [CentOS] get ride of initial screen on CentOS 7

2015-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
the following if you haven't already. eula --agreed firstboot --disable -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 gcc is a bit old

2015-06-29 Thread James A. Peltier
to your SCSI chain now and then. -- John Woods When you're going to maintain software for long periods of time the Modules environment can come in really handy. See http://modules.sf.net -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus

Re: [CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-26 Thread James A. Peltier
--bridgeslaves=bond0.306 | | -- | James A. Peltier | IT Services - Research Computing Group | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | Phone : 604-365-6432 | Fax : 778-782-3045 | E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca | Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices | Twitter : @sfu_rcg | Powering Engagement

Re: [CentOS] LVM hatred, was Re: /boot on a separate partition?

2015-06-25 Thread James A. Peltier
-- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology

[CentOS] Possible bug in kickstart

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
network --device=GLUSTER --bridgeslaves=bond0.11 network --device=EXPERIMENTAL --bridgeslaves=bond0.302 network --device=NAT --bridgeslaves=bond0.303 network --device=DMZ2 --bridgeslaves=bond0.304 network --device=NETM --bridgeslaves=bond0.306 -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] PXE question

2015-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
| documentation. rather than use PXELinux, chainload iPXE and watch the world of PXE booting become like unicorns pooping Skittles. Your life will be much easier for it. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax

Re: [CentOS] Resize KVM NTFS file system

2015-06-09 Thread James A. Peltier
recover that file system. I've had experience with both and their technical support staff and management are far more likely to support you when something goes wrong if it's their tools rather than some third party systems. Just my 2c -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group

Re: [CentOS] NFS performance on CentOS 7

2015-05-11 Thread James A. Peltier
in `netstat -i` output? There could be lots of reasons for this problem from cabling to switch/host misconfiguration. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] Best way to integrate CentOS in Windows AD environment

2015-05-08 Thread James A. Peltier
| | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | You can feel free to contact me off list and we can let you know what we are doing to keep our NIS/AD environment in sync. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-28 Thread James A. Peltier
know that I'm not immune to it. I don't even use partitions for anything but system drives. I use whole disk PV to avoid things like partition alignment issues. Not a single bit of data loss in 7 years dealing with these servers either. At least none that weren't user error. ;) -- James

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-28 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: | | People who understand how to use the system do not suffer these problems. | LVM adds a bit of complexity for a bit of extra benefits. You can't | blame LVM for user error. Not having

Re: [CentOS] Looking for a life-save LVM Guru

2015-02-27 Thread James A. Peltier
. The configuration should still be available on the other disks and adding the new PV and moving the extents should be enough. | Could someone help me please??? | I'm in dire need for help to save the data, at least some of it if possible. Can you not see the PV/VG/LV at all? -- James

Re: [CentOS] xfs_quotas

2015-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
? | | mark | XFS quotas are set on the device/filesystem in question, not a particular mount point. We use automount to mount filesystems all over the place and XFS quotas work just fine. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog does not log on a separate partition/FS mounted on /var/log/

2014-08-06 Thread James A. Peltier
. | | I suspect it's selinux; /var/log should have a var_log_t context | and I | suspect it doesn't. running a restorecon -vv on /var/log should correct that automatically I would think. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-07 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com writes: | | On 7/1/2014 9:40 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | inode64 is a mount time option and it is a one way option as well. | Once you mounted a filesystem with inode64 you can't go back. It | has | to do with inode

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-06 Thread James A. Peltier
? Your impression is correct. The OPs filesystem is less than 1TB so inode64 is not the problem and it is likely a kernel bug. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 7/1/2014 9:40 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | inode64 is a mount time option and it is a one way option as well. | Once you mounted a filesystem with inode64 you can't go back. It | has to do with inode allocation. If you have older operating | systems

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-01 Thread James A. Peltier
... | | | -- | If we really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, | because the answer is not separate from the problem. | - Krishnamurti Is this filesystem mounted with the inode64 option? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-01 Thread James A. Peltier
don't see the bugs listed in the errata doesn't mean the bugs haven't been found as part of the backport process -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-01 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca writes: | | | I am having an issue with an XFS filesystem shutting down under | | high | | load with very many small files. Basically, I have around 3.5 - 4 | | million files on this filesystem. New files are being written

Re: [CentOS] corruption of in-memory data detected (xfs)

2014-07-01 Thread James A. Peltier
. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices To be original seek your inspiration from unexpected sources

Re: [CentOS] How to remove LVM Physical Volume from Volume Group?

2014-06-24 Thread James A. Peltier
(ordered) I need to perform? I failed to find | clear howto. | | | vg-data has only one partition, total size is over 1TB, free space is | about 500GB so there is a plenty or room. did you pvmove the extents that are on the drive you want to remove? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services

Re: [CentOS] The state of xfs on CentOS 6?

2014-05-28 Thread James A. Peltier
. However, with respect to file system size. Be prepared to have a lot of memory for a file system that is large and a lot of files should you ever need to do a file system check. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] The state of xfs on CentOS 6?

2014-05-28 Thread James A. Peltier
used with large volumes, but XFS remains my goto file system for all large volumes as it is the best performance/stability match out there. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] Need Python3 for C6

2014-04-25 Thread James A. Peltier
this to maintain several version of libraries that do not come with the OS or are newer than those provided by the OS to build production software pipelines for various research tools. It's a pretty nice system ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6.5 NO syslog.conf file. How to fix?

2014-03-31 Thread James A. Peltier
/etc/rsyslog.conf. However, because this is rsyslog now, your existing syslog configurations will not work. You will either need to move to rsyslog or remove rsyslog and install syslog-ng if you wish to continue using your existing configurations. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread James A. Peltier
an extra layer of security that administrators can use to secure their systems and it's dead simple to understand! -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] Loss of network connectivity | kernel: irq 68: nobody cared (try booting with the irqpoll option)

2014-03-08 Thread James A. Peltier
stable. James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We KEEP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 install

2014-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
make/model is the RAID controller in the unit? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Around here, however, we don’t

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for large filesystem server setup (n * 100 TB)

2014-02-28 Thread James A. Peltier
the machines automount. This is really simple to maintain and if we want to do replication on a per volume level we can. We are looking into GlusterFS though for certain things. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-23 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: | On 22.02.2014 22:27, James A. Peltier wrote: | | partprobe can rescan partitions, but it can't resize them. You | may | be able to use gparted or the parted text mode to resize | partitions

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-22 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:24 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | The choice is yours. I use whole disk PVs myself. | | Indeed I did originally use whole-disk PVs. But Anaconda doesn't | support them so during a recent rebuild we went to partitions

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-21 Thread James A. Peltier
, recreate it on the exact partition starting boundary and make it the size of the total disk space. The choice is yours. I use whole disk PVs myself. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782

Re: [CentOS] NFS not recognizing available file space

2014-02-06 Thread James A. Peltier
to a machine. Profiles like throughput-performance, virtual-host, virtual-guest as well as enterprise-storage. You may wish to have a look at the tunables that the profiles set and apply them manually to your CentOS 5 machine where applicable. Glad to see this helped though! :) -- James A. Peltier

Re: [CentOS] Install without LVM -

2014-02-06 Thread James A. Peltier
offers many bits of useful functionality over traditional partitions -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices I want

Re: [CentOS] Install without LVM -

2014-02-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | | Am 06.02.2014 21:16, schrieb James A. Peltier: | - Original Message - | | | | How do I install from the centos 6.5 dvd without LVM? Nothing I | | have | | tried will permit me to make my own layout unless I accept LVM. | | | | Bob

Re: [CentOS] NFS not recognizing available file space

2014-02-04 Thread James A. Peltier
| ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-29 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | On Wed, January 29, 2014 01:44, James A. Peltier wrote: | - Original Message - | | Does anyone here use a Samba4 setup for single sign-on for MS_Win | | workstations | | and CentOS-6 boxes? Does anyone here use it for imap and/or | | smtp

Re: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
and working, but it is now. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices I want to inspire people. I want someone to say

Re: [CentOS] XFS : Taking the plunge

2014-01-21 Thread James A. Peltier
problems. Any advice much appreciated. Do you REALLY need it to be a single volume that is so large? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http

Re: [CentOS] logical volume and drive names after mirroring a centos installation via rsync

2013-11-09 Thread James A. Peltier
server A and perform a dd of server B's disk onto the sdb disk that was in server A? Then you don't have to do anything as the disks are exact replica of each other. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573

Re: [CentOS] 3TB disk with 6.0.4 not booting

2013-11-04 Thread James A. Peltier
which supports GPT partitions. There is no way to boot a disk that is 3TB in size using a BIOS based machine. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website

Re: [CentOS] XFS, inode64, and remount

2013-10-29 Thread James A. Peltier
. Quotas are another example where the option will not work unless you fully unmount the file system. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http

Re: [CentOS] page allocation failure

2013-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
machine? Can you tell me what memory looks like during these errors? It looks like a memory problem, but I'll need more details. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt

Re: [CentOS] page allocation failure

2013-10-27 Thread James A. Peltier
a dmesg into pastebin and send us the link. There are likely other errors that we're not able to see to determine the cause of the problem. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] htdocs on NFS share / any pitfalls?

2013-10-22 Thread James A. Peltier
in front of the web servers. This will hide the latencies that the NFS protocol will bring. You can try to scale NFS through use of channel bonding or pNFS/Gluster but setting up a reverse proxy or memcached instance is going to be your best bet to making the system perform well. -- James

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread James A. Peltier
harder. You should also be careful to implement yum priorities to as to avoid third party packages from overwriting base and updates. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4 - doesnt power off with shutdown/poweroff cmd

2013-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
| | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James

[CentOS] XFS quotas not working at all (seemingly)

2013-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
on their machines before I consider reporting a bug? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who

Re: [CentOS] XFS quotas not working at all (seemingly)

2013-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
the | bricks others have thrown at them.” -David Brinkley via Luke Shaw | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] XFS quotas not working at all (seemingly)

2013-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
| | | | This is very strange and it's something new. Can anyone confirm | | similar findings on their machines before I consider reporting a | | bug? | | | | -- | | James A. Peltier | | Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group | | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | | Phone : 778

Re: [CentOS] XFS quotas not working at all (seemingly)

2013-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
reporting | | | a | | | bug? | | | | | | -- | | | James A. Peltier | | | Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group | | | Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus | | | Phone : 778-782-6573 | | | Fax : 778-782-3045 | | | E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca | | | Website : http://www.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread James A. Peltier
. On what scale are you talking? 2 workstations, 50 workstations, 100s workstations? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
, personally, wouldn't recommend the | additional | obfuscation and complication that LVM adds. | | --Blake | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
that most of the performance stuff is a couple years old. Careful what you trust out there. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
flexibility too in that you can migrate PVs from one device to another online. So if you have one iSCSI server that is coming off support and you are replacing it with another, you can use pvmove to move the data from one target to another. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
are replacing it with | another, you can use pvmove to move the data from one target to | another. Oh! One last case in point. Partition Alignment. This is very important to the performance of a disk subsystem. With full disk LVM it's not an issue at all. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services

Re: [CentOS] to lvm or not to lvm - why/when to use lvm

2013-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | On 09/26/2013 09:35 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | - Original Message - | | - Original Message - | | | Hi, | | | | | | I was wondering, why/when it is useful or when should I avoid | | | to | | | use | | | LVM. | | | | | | I think the big

[CentOS] Looking for input SELinux/Other post-commit hooks.

2013-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
) large chroot environment each time the script is run. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person

Re: [CentOS] Looking for input SELinux/Other post-commit hooks.

2013-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On 09/25/2013 12:35 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | Hi All, | | I'm looking for input as to how I may restrict some post commit | hooks by | way of SELinux or some other mechanism. Here's a description

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
configuration. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay a solid foundation from

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
to using file system labels instead. It will avoid the device enumeration problems discussed earlier. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http

Re: [CentOS] large SCSI RAID, replacing server

2013-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | | are both systems totally identical hardware? in that case, I'd | | simply | | move ALL the disks, including the system volume. | | I agree here. Looking at the future, consider

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