[CentOS] RHEL-6 vs. CentOS-5.5 (was: Static assignment of SCSI device names?)
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Jan 30 20:13:38 UTC 2011
At Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:37:19 -0800 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> Hello list members,
>
> My adventure into udev rules has taken an interesting turn. I did
> discover a stupid error in the way I was attempting to assign static
> disk device names on CentOS-5.5, so that's out of the way.
>
> But in the process of exploring, I installed a trial copy of RHEL-6 on
> the new machine to see if anything had changed (since I intend this box
> to run CentOS-6 anyway).
>
> Lots of differences, and it's obvious that RedHat does things a bit
> differently here and there. My focus has been on figuring out how best
> to solve my udev challenge, and I found that tools like 'scsi_id' and
> udev admin/test commands have changed. The udev rules themselves seem
> to be the same.
>
> Regarding networking, all of my 'ifcfg-*' files from CentOS-5.5 worked
> well, including bridging for KVM. Of course, one of the first things I
> did was remove that atrocious NetworkManager package ... it needs to be
> rewritten to make it a *lot* more intuitive. RedHat uses it during
> installation to manually configure the NICs, which I think is a
> mistake. I much prefer the way CentOS anaconda has done it so far, as a
> separate install menu form.
NetworkManager is fine for something like a laptop with a 'varying'
network environment, since it interfaces with the gnome-network-manager
applet, which gives one a little GUI thingy for selecting this or that
wireless hot spot, etc. For a machine with a *fixed* network
connection, NetworkManager just gets in the way and trys to be
excessively 'clever'.
>
> The performance of the machine seemed to be better with the newer
> kernel, which is encouraging. I suspect we can look forward to a number
> of improvements. I've just managed to scratch the surface. I do expect
> there may be a few challenges for those of us upgrading a system from
> 5.x to 6, where some user-written admin scripts could break depending on
> the system commands they use.
>
> I look forward to CentOS-6 and all the goodies we can expect, and I'm
> quite happy to wait until the CentOS crew does their thing before
> releasing it ... they deserve a lot of credit for doing a thorough job
> all these years.
>
> Chuck
>
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