[CentOS-devel] Timeline for C5 beta / final?

[Karanbir Singh]

Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> A killer on remote machines can be when the new kernel detects your 
>>> NIC cards in a different order and either skips initialization or 
>>> assigns the wrong IP's. 
>> isnt that why you use hwaddr in your network scripts ?
> That's even worse. All of my remote machines have swappable disks and 
> almost all of them are cloned from a few masters, shipped, and swapped 
> into the destination machine with the IP address set on a temporary box.

This is your site policy, and is not necessary how everyone runs their 
machines. I, for one, take it that each drive that is added to a machine 
is going to be empty - its trivial to remaster a machine on the fly with 
tools like cobbler+koan and use puppet to manage the machine, Capistrano 
to manage app rollout.

The concern you raised was about network interfaces not coming up in a 
predictable manner when people move from centos-4 to centos-5, the 
answer to which is, use hwaddr's in your network scripts.

- KB
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