Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Bryan Smith
All GNU/Linux distributions I've touched (over a dozen) the past few years ship XFS. In fact, SuSE has supported XFS in SuSE Enterprise Linux Server (SLES) since version 8, over 5 years before it was an add-on in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 (tech preview in 5.3-5.5). At that time, Red

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/10/2017 20:53, Bryan Smith wrote: > On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On 19/10/2017 01:12, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > >> I'm not sure I agree that xfs is worth a mention. If you need what it > >> can

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/10/2017 23:30, Mark Clarke wrote: > On 19/10/2017 22:12, Ingo Wichmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 19.10.2017 um 14:35 schrieb kenn...@floss.cat: >>> And please, add a bit of AWK, people gets stunned with quite simple awk >>> tricks. >> Oh, the awk discussion again. I don't think awk's relevance

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Mark Clarke
Just to add SUSE recommends XFS for its data partitions and CEPH recommends XFS.for ODS devices. On 19/10/2017 14:12, Bryan Smith wrote: > Simone Piccardi wrote: >> Il 18/10/2017 17:14, Mark Clarke ha scritto: >>> Given the slow death of the ext file system >> I don't see that, it's still the

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
Ingo Wichmann wrote: > Awk is a processing language. Simply asking for the top 10 awk onliners > is not an option. To give it the respect it deserves, we'd have to cover > it's syntax, data-types and functions. For how much weight? I agree with Ingo that awk probably shouldn't be on the LPIC-1

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Ingo Wichmann
Hi, Am 19.10.2017 um 14:35 schrieb kenn...@floss.cat: > And please, add a bit of AWK, people gets stunned with quite simple awk > tricks. Oh, the awk discussion again. I don't think awk's relevance rose since we discussed it last time. Awk is a processing language. Simply asking for the top 10

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Bryan Smith
On Thursday, October 19, 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 19/10/2017 01:12, Anselm Lingnau wrote: > >> I'm not sure I agree that xfs is worth a mention. If you need what it > >> can do, it's awesome, but it always seemed to me a specialized fs > >> outside of the normal

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 19/10/2017 01:12, Anselm Lingnau wrote: >> I'm not sure I agree that xfs is worth a mention. If you need what it >> can do, it's awesome, but it always seemed to me a specialized fs >> outside of the normal and routine. Or maybe I just move in the wrong >> circles. > These days, XFS is a Red

Re: [lpi-examdev] LPIC-1 Exam 101 Objectives Discussion

2017-10-19 Thread kenneth
Agreed. And please, add a bit of AWK, people gets stunned with quite simple awk tricks. Regards! Kenneth A 2017-10-19 14:05, Sergio Belkin escrigué: > I agree with removing fmt. Also, I think that {un}expand should be removed > too. > > Through years I've never seen anyone using