Re: [PLUG] NFS 3 server going down.

2017-11-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
We talked about my NFS v3 versus v4 reasons over a pint today, what better place! We talked about some enterprise filer issues not working correctly with RHEL. I guess this could be extended to any heterogenous x-nix environment. Maturity, is good enough reason - v3 is 1995 tech and v4 is 2000/200

Re: [PLUG] Fiber connectors?

2017-11-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 9 Nov 2017 15:02:23 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >When the CenturyLink dude installed my fiber the wall inside the house >where it ended up had no sheetrock, so there is no jack - the skinny >white fiber cable just dangles down between the studs and the end of it >plugs into the back of

Re: [PLUG] NFS 3 server going down.

2017-11-15 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I am curious why using NFS v3, especially when having connection or service reliability issues? V4 is more resilient and copes with slow/unreliable connections better. Why not standard (these days) NFS v4? Are you avoiding it because of the name spaces preventing you mounting the exports exactly t

Re: [PLUG] NFS 3 server going down.

2017-11-15 Thread Frank Filz
> Or maybe nfs3 with udp. You need to be careful of NFS with UDP on high speed networks (Gigabit or faster), the fragment lifetime is long enough for the 16 bit packet id to wrap, and the result is painfully slow data transfer with a significant possibility of data corruption (the checksum is also

Re: [PLUG] Closing sockets using atexit C code.

2017-11-15 Thread Wayne E. Van Loon Sr.
What signal is you program getting, SIGTERM? Wayne On 11/14/2017 10:26 AM, michael wrote: In C there is an atexit function that takes no arguments. Because of this, you can't pass in the file descriptors for your sockets. Uge! Short of making these integers global, how can I close these so

Re: [PLUG] Hard Drives - WD Red Pro?

2017-11-15 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 22:13:47 -0800 Keith Lofstrom dijo: >The question about Amazon and Newegg and ??? is ... am >I missing a better source for online orders? My recent purchase of three 8TB WD Red Pro drives were from eBay, where I got better prices than Amazon or Newegg. _

Re: [PLUG] Hard Drives - WD Red Pro?

2017-11-15 Thread Bill Barry
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > The question about Amazon and Newegg and ??? is ... am > I missing a better source for online orders? I've never > tried to return a drive to Amazon or Newegg, and I don't > know what warranty service is like from WD or Seagate. I > ha

Re: [PLUG] Hard Drives - WD Red Pro?

2017-11-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Keith Lofstrom wrote: The question about Amazon and Newegg and ??? is ... am I missing a better source for online orders? Keith, You might consider eBay. Some vendors there sell new in box hardware for very reasonable prices (others want outlandish prices). It's another