On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:46 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> >> The basic question: Should I be holding off a little longer on going to >> CentOS7 in production? >> > On the one hand, we're starting to roll it out... *only* on new servers, > and the servers we're rolling it out on are *only* fileservers - a couple > attached to RAID boxes, and the other two will be attached to RAIDs, but > server home directories. > > I feel that I'd stay with 6.x unless there's a must-have feature. Right > now, I'm playing with stuff on those servers - for one, NetworkMangler is > *extremely* noisy, and trying to find *full* examples of its configuration > file... I've only found *tiny* bits and pieces. I think I got it to log > only errors, but the startup was *noisy*, and the documentation leaves > something to be desired. > > Oh, and it enables wireless. On a server. With no wifi. And I don't see > any ifcfg-'s to set them to *off*. > > I really don't like this "we'll do everything" attitude, esp. when > "everything" is intended for users of laptops.... > > And the install, as I think I posted last week, was nasty - if I want > anything other than it's "let me partition *and* throw LVM on top", it > goes to choose disks... and selects *ALL* by default. > > So there's a bunch of stuff I don't like, and will wait to see if they fix > it. You don't _really_ expect any of those things to change do you? I look at it it as more of a question of how long you have to deal with the operational differences among your production systems, which is probably going to be a long and annoying time under the best of circumstances. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com