-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 07:40:31PM -0400, Nick Smith wrote: > > > the first time i tried to install centos on my fileserver it detected > > > my reiserfs drives but then didnt give me a kernel to actually access > > > them - strike one > > > > Err, investigating whether upstream supports reiser would have been a good > > first move. > > > Yeah, never thought i had to, every other distro ive tired has it, and > it manages small files better than ext3, but i know now. Every other non-enterprise distro, you mean ? Or have you tried the enterprise ones too ? It is something many people keep forgeting. CentOS (and upstream) is not a standard distro, but an enterprise one. Rules change a lot in that case. > > > now im trying centos on my mail server, wipe the drives, created a > > > mirrored raid array from the setup, (took over 14 hours to format and > > > > That's *extraordinarily* slow, as in something seems very bad. > > > the drives are in perfect condition, ran the previous OS without any > problems, they are almost new. Maybe something related to the chipset ? - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEPZZWpdyWzQ5b5ckRApizAJ49biv0Oi0TEMWZsMDirAU+0szmPACfWco7 GAH0QIA73HrbD+T17UjbYx0= =7bJu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----