similar to: CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?

On 19.02.2015 19:41, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: >> I think the problem is that you simply have to draw a distinction >> between technology and product. >> The rise of the Linux desktop will never happen because Linux is not a >> product but a technology and as a result has to

On Thu, February 19, 2015 02:25, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Le 19/02/2015 05:43, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >> My personal view on installers is extremely biased toward the user >> staying out of trouble, they shouldn't have to read documentation >> for >> a GUI installer. > > A *user* never has to even see - or use - an installer. A USER has to > USE a computer, by

On Thu, February 19, 2015 13:41, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Linux distros experience on this front is terrible. Why? Linux OS's Because Linux-land is a bazaar and Apple-land is a cathedral. You cannot have consistency at the user level without stability at the OS and application framework level. That is simply not going to happen with FOSS. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:47 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de> wrote: > I think the problem is that you simply have to draw a distinction > between technology and product. > The rise of the Linux desktop will never happen because Linux is not a > product but a technology and as a result has to be a jack of all trades. I'm unconvinced. True, Chromebooks

On 19.02.2015 06:28, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:20 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Niki Kovacs wrote: >>> Le 18/02/2015 23:12, > >>> close, but then, for mysterious reasons, Red Hat decided to cripple it >>> into oblivion. Go figure. >> >> One word: desktop. That's what they want to conquer next. > > OK

On Fri Nov 14 19:04:48 UTC 2014, Darr247 darr247 at gmail.com wrote: > I fully expect this laptop to die anytime, since I bought it > in 2006 (its current HDD is ~4-years old)... when that happens > my next laptop/notebook will have CentOS installed on it > (probably 7, even though I dislike GNOME3 about the same as > vista compared to XP), and my backup copy will probably be on

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:20 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Le 18/02/2015 23:12, >> close, but then, for mysterious reasons, Red Hat decided to cripple it >> into oblivion. Go figure. > > One word: desktop. That's what they want to conquer next. OK well there's a really long road to get to that pie in the sky. I don't see it

On Mon, January 16, 2012 17:01, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 01/16/2012 10:16 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > > ... >> The xmldump for this guest instance contains this: > ... > > Please post the xmldumps of the original guest and cloned > guest right after > cloning and without any modifications. > > Regards, > Dennis Prototype dumpxml virsh # dumpxml

On Tue, March 17, 2015 18:13, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > Have you tried restarting the libvirtd service? > > Regards, > Dennis > What does that do to the other running guest vm instances? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca

I am a newcomer to CentOS and I appreciate the discussion. It would seem to me - and I am sure I am not the first one to state the obvious - Fedora is primarily a desktop OS while CentOS is primarily a server OS. The user needs are very different, the features needed are very, very different, hence many of the current features, or future features, should remain in one or the other and not cross

Le 18/02/2015 08:09, Niki Kovacs a ?crit : > > Apparently no spare devices have been created. So why do I only have 226 > GB of disk space under CentOS, when I had roughly 650 GB under Slackware? > An idea just crossed my mind. Could it be that 'df' is reporting a wrong partition size on the RAID 5 array? And how can I check if this is the case? -- Microlinux - Solutions

Le 18/02/2015 09:59, Niki Kovacs a ?crit : > ??sdd3 8:51 0 76,4G 0 part > ??md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / > > Any idea what's going on ? Ooops, just saw it. /dev/sdd3 apparently has the wrong size. As to why this is so, it's a mystery. I'll investigate further into this. (Since this is the office's gateway, I'll take some time to respond

On 02/18/2015 03:01 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Le 18/02/2015 09:59, Niki Kovacs a ?crit : >> ??sdd3 8:51 0 76,4G 0 part >> ??md127 9:127 0 229G 0 raid5 / >> >> Any idea what's going on ? > > Ooops, just saw it. /dev/sdd3 apparently has the wrong size. > > As to why this is so, it's a mystery. > > I'll investigate further into

Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : > "installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets > mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. Says who? -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Web : http://www.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Niki Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >> >> "installer is organized around mount points" is correct, and what gets >> mounted on mount points? Volumes, not partitions. > > > Says who? Because it's ambiguous. A partition might entirely contain a volume (a

Niki Kovacs wrote: > Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >> What is NOT obvious: for single device installs, if you omit the size >> in the create mount point dialog, the size of the resulting volume >> will consume all remaining space. But since there's no way to preset >> raid5 at the time a mount point is created (raid5 is set after the >> fact),

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 9:25 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > disks -> partition(s) -> mdraid devices -> PVs -> VG -> LV -> file system. > phew. You might be a candidate for LVM integrated raid. It uses the md kernel code on the backend, but it's all LVM tools to create, manage and monitor. The raid level is defined per LV, instead of all

Le 19/02/2015 11:03, Chris Murphy a ?crit : > This is a false dichotomy. I reject it. There's too much fact to the > contrary. My mom has done an OS installation, she is most definitely > not an admin. I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. :o) -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques 100% Linux et logiciels libres 7, place de l'?glise

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Niki Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote: > Le 19/02/2015 11:03, Chris Murphy a ?crit : >> >> This is a false dichotomy. I reject it. There's too much fact to the >> contrary. My mom has done an OS installation, she is most definitely >> not an admin. > > > I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens

On 20 February 2015 at 05:25, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: >> I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. > > It's a confusing analogy. Chickens don't fly. Horses do swim. I have a couple of chickens, and yes, the buggers do fly if you don't clip their flight feathers. :-)