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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 ...

A thank you to the community

Friday, July 31st, 2009 Posted in Linux | No Comments »

I'm sure by now everyone who reads this has heard the news about the goings on of the CentOS development team. Within a few hours following the release of the open letter, the story had been picked up, chewed on, ...

Feedback!

Monday, July 20th, 2009 Posted in Linux | 4 Comments »

There were loads of interesting comments and corrections about the security page on the CentOS wiki.  I've made a few updates regarding some missing sections, and some minor corrections. What I'm interested in now are the other security pages that ...

Hardening CentOS

Thursday, July 9th, 2009 Posted in Linux | 14 Comments »

This is something that I've griped about in the past, but without taking action, griping is basically just annoying other people in an arrogant fashion. Now while I'm very good at doing this, I'd much rather do something to help ...