We are a data shop. nfs v4 support native XFS support ext4 Hopefully by 6.4 they will have native brtfs :-) On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 03:33:10PM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: >>> >>> > IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have >>> > hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR. LPAR can be >>> > divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU. The software to manage this is >>> > now called PowerVM (its been called other names in the past, not all >>> > polite). >>> [informative text snipped] >>> >>> Yes, it is some nice stuff... >>> >>> In particular, having the hardware partitioning capability plays nice >>> with Oracle licensing. Under KVM or Xen we still have to license the >>> entire system. This probably won't change with the newer kvm, but one >>> can hope. >>> >> >> It's kind of funny since OracleVM *is* Xen, and it's counted as >> "hardware partitioning" :) >> >> -- Pasi >> >>> On the Linux side I would like to see how KSM (kernel memory merge) >>> stacks up against memory compression on the Power7 side. Not sure if >>> this made it into RHEL6, but hope springs eternal... >>> >>> Storage management is always a big issue for me. AIX has some really >>> great tools for managing disks. In Linux the LUN, block and fs layer >>> are still relatively decoupled which gives an enormous amount of >>> flexibility but certain types of changes require multiple commands on >>> Linux. >>> >>> On the desktop side I've been running RHEL6 as my primary environment >>> since release. Transition was easy. My old kickstart files needed >>> tweaking, but so far it's been a breeze. > > What did you hve to tweak? I noticed the new use of the '%end' flag to > mark the end of a section, and the new partitioning structure which > names the LVM based volumes and groups things which contain the > hostname. (This is a big deal if you have multiple virtual hosts on a > machihe and want to compare their internal LVM's side by side from the > virtualization server.) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >