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Archive for September, 2009

RHEL 5.4 and XFS

Friday, September 4th, 2009 Posted in Linux | 8 Comments »

There's been quite a bit of interest in the XFS offerings included in the 5.4 release of RHEL, and unfortunately it hasn't really lived up to the hype. There are a few things you'll need to know if you want ...

dm-multipath and the ds4700

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 Posted in Linux | 6 Comments »

For around a year now, I've been wanting to move away from IBM's (okay, LSI's) rdac mpp drivers used for the ds4XXX  series disk chassis on RHEL and CentOS. When RHEL 5.3 came out boasting support dm-multipath support for the ...