On Mon, September 29, 2014 11:02 am, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > True, and can't be said better. And that was one (not the main though) reason I migrate to FreeBSD servers whose time came instead of upgrading them to more "Desktopish" Linux (took me a lot of effort to not repeat here someone's "Windoze" comparison). I know I have no guarantee, but they (FreeBSD) have good record... Workstations though stay with CentOS (7 now). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++