I recently got a job administering a CentOS server. It is my first time on any kind of Linux OS besides Ubuntu/Debian so I was sort of reserved in accepting the contract.
The server has is not running any services but is installed and configured so since I'm setting up the critical applications, I decided to ask if they could wipe it from CentOS to Ubuntu. They told me they support Ubuntu (usually) but recently Ubuntu/Debian no longer installs on their servers because of a RAID driver being dropping in the kernel. I've asked the technician for some details on the problem, so I'm hoping we can help him (and us) by getting our name back in the large web-hosting company. The technician: ==== Raid card is very common. Old PCI version was supported everywhere in default kernel. New version is PCI - 1X and it is simple to install just it is not in default kernel. So we noticed in process of kernel upgrade custom drivers get dropped and server does not reboot. This is not big deal with someone's workstation but with datacentar full of servers we can not take this risk. As for informing community, I am sure they got plenty of that. This is 3ware 9650SE-2LP raid card and it is only hardware SATA raid card out there. We use those in almost every server that we deploy unless we have specific SCSI requests. ==== Thanks for your help. -- Brett Alton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you really need to print this email? Help preserve our environment! -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
