Subject: [WBEL-users] Raid 1 Software raid

Allen allen@up-link.net
Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:47:32 -0600


http://www.tldp.org/FAQ/Linux-RAID-FAQ/x37.html

I've used it before for RH 9 and it helped.

Allen


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>   1. Raid 1 Software raid (Denis Croombs)
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>   3. Updates/Header Files (Samuel Lewis)
>   4. (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred) (Conor Wynne)
>   5. Re: (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred) (Conor Wynne)
>   6. Re: Updates go away? (David Mir)
>   7. Mirror list (christian.huegel@fedoraforum.de)
>   8. Re: Raid 1 Software raid (Simone)
>   9. Rsync Updates Organizing (David Mir)
>  10. Re: Raid 1 Software raid (William Warren)
>  11. Re: Rsync Updates Organizing (Michiel van Es)
>  12. Re: Raid 1 Software raid (Conor Wynne)
>  13. Re: Rsync Updates Organizing (William Hooper)
>  14. WhiteBox and SATA (Vic)
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> Reply-To: <denis@just-servers.co.uk>
> From: "Denis Croombs" <denis@just-servers.co.uk>
> To: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:53:22 -0000
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Raid 1 Software raid
>
> Is there a quick howto for software Raid 1 during the install of whitebox 
> as
> I have never needed to do this before and cannot find out how to do it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Denis
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Yum Update issues
> From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com>
> Reply-To: mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
> To: WhiteBox Users <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 04:35:48 -0600
>
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 07:33 +0100, Brian Ipsen wrote:
>
>>
>> I've checked some od the sites, and it seems like the file header.info
>> doesn't exist. Is this a problem with my yum configuration - or is it a
>> problem on the mirrors ??
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> /Brian
>> _______________________________________________
>
> There is currently a major problem with most of the official mirrors ...
> If you are new to the mailing list, look in the archives for the last
> wee here:
>
> http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-November/thread.html
>
> check these threads:
>
> - Updates go away?
>
> - problem with rsync script
>
> - yum mirror sites all dead?
>
> Some mirrors that I have verified that still work are:
>
> http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/whiteboxlinux.org/
> ftp://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/whiteboxlinux.org/
> rsync://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/whitebox/
>
> http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox
> ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/whitebox
>
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> From: Samuel Lewis <slewis@complaw.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 07:11:55 -0500
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Updates/Header Files
>
> I found that the Georgia Tech mirror is still up and working.  However,
> when I change my configuration to use that mirror (or any other mirror
> other than NCSU), I get an error message indicating that the header
> files cannot be found.
>
> What is the proper entry for the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file to
> allow other mirrors to function?
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:16:39 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "Conor Wynne" <weeboy@conorwynne.com>
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Reply-To: weeboy@conorwynne.com
> Subject: [WBEL-users] (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have an issue with sendmail (sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1)
> All mails originating from the server get the following status:
>
> [root@server root]# mailq
>                /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
> iAJBJqMr031864        0 Fri Nov 19 11:19 <root@server>
>                 (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)
>
> If we "dig mydomain.ie aaaa" or "dig mydomain.ie mx" or "dig mydomain.ie 
> a"
> We get the appropriate response!
>
> e.g.:
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mydomain.ie a (or mx or aaaa)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58843
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> The only entries I changed in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc were as follows:
> define(`SMART_HOST',`mailhost.otherdomain.ie')
>
> mailhost.otherdomain.ie has the mx record in mydomain.ie
>
> FYI: mailhost resolves via dnslookups.
> The two other changes were as follows:
> FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.ie')dnl
>
> In this config, all mails were waiting in /var/spool/clientmqueue
> So we added a line as follows to /etc/mail/submit.cf
> O DirectSubmissionModifiers=C
>
> This resulted in messages no longer being as dsn=4.4.3 stat=queued in
> /var/log/maillog
>
> But subsequently we now get them being queued in /var/spool/mqueue.
>
> Help me Obi-Wan.
> Regards
>
> -- 
> Conor Wynne,
> Dublin,
> Irlande.
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:27:03 -0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)
> From: "Conor Wynne" <weeboy@conorwynne.com>
> To: weeboy@conorwynne.com
> Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Reply-To: weeboy@conorwynne.com
>
> I shall answer my own problem:
>
> I forgot to add the IPADDRESS of the DNS server in resolv.conf.
> I had the FQDN instaed.
>
> Now I have more problems, but at least mails are now being delivered.
> After lunch I'll ask again ;-0
>
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have an issue with sendmail (sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1)
>> All mails originating from the server get the following status:
>>
>> [root@server root]# mailq
>>                 /var/spool/mqueue (4 requests)
>> -----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
>> ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
>> iAJBJqMr031864        0 Fri Nov 19 11:19 <root@server>
>>                  (host map: lookup (mydomain.ie): deferred)
>>
>> If we "dig mydomain.ie aaaa" or "dig mydomain.ie mx" or "dig mydomain.ie
>> a"
>> We get the appropriate response!
>>
>> e.g.:
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mydomain.ie a (or mx or aaaa)
>> ;; global options:  printcmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58843
>> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> The only entries I changed in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc were as follows:
>> define(`SMART_HOST',`mailhost.otherdomain.ie')
>>
>> mailhost.otherdomain.ie has the mx record in mydomain.ie
>>
>> FYI: mailhost resolves via dnslookups.
>> The two other changes were as follows:
>> FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
>> MASQUERADE_AS(`mydomain.ie')dnl
>>
>> In this config, all mails were waiting in /var/spool/clientmqueue
>> So we added a line as follows to /etc/mail/submit.cf
>> O DirectSubmissionModifiers=C
>>
>> This resulted in messages no longer being as dsn=4.4.3 stat=queued in
>> /var/log/maillog
>>
>> But subsequently we now get them being queued in /var/spool/mqueue.
>>
>> Help me Obi-Wan.
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Conor Wynne,
>> Dublin,
>> Irlande.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Whitebox-users mailing list
>> Whitebox-users@beau.org
>> http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Conor Wynne,
> Dublin,
> Irlande.
>
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>
> Message: 6
> From: David Mir <mir@soartech.com>
> Organization: ---
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Updates go away?
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:55:33 -0500
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
>
> I did email ncsu and received a reply:
>
> ===========================
> It should be fixed sometime next week.
>
> Elliot
> ===========================
>
> On Thursday 18 November 2004 04:38 pm, Kirby C. Bohling wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:06:03PM -0500, Samuel Lewis wrote:
>> > Sorry if this has already been discussed, as I just joined the list
>> > today.
>> >
>> > Has something happened to the various mirrors maintaining updates?  I
>> > attempted to up2date and received nothing but errors.  In looking
>> > around, it looks like the mirrors have stopped carrying the updates.
>> > Any reason why?
>>
>>  I'm not sure what precisely is going on.  They we're down a
>> couple of days ago.  It looked like they came back yesterday, and
>> they are gone again today.
>>
>>  I have yet to see anyone post what they got as a reply from
>> either the Whitebox folks (Vicki and John have been disturbingly
>> silent on the issue), or from the people who run the NCSU mirror.
>> So I'm not sure exactly where the problems are.  I'd be fairly
>> shocked if the NCSU mirror is having problems (they mirror a lot of
>> stuff, I'd assume they have it fairly well automated).  However, I
>> have yet to hear any of the people from beau.org to say the where
>> they believe the problem is.  They sound pretty busy running a
>> library.
>>
>>  I've been bothered enough by this that I've been looking for
>> WhiteBox alternatives, but unfortantely none of the alternatives
>> make me happy enough to warrent a change (CentOS, TaoLinux, and
>> Lineox all made my research list).  E-mail me off list if you want
>> to know my objections to each project.  If you know of another
>> alternative, e-mail me, again in private.  I'm not hear to say bad
>> things about any of the RHEL rebuilds.  I just want to find one I am
>> comfortable running at work.  WBEL has been slowly slipping away
>> from that status.  I'll probably continue to run it at home, if only
>> because I really like the helpful nature of this list.
>>
>>  WhiteBox itself has been more then stable enough, it just seems
>> that actually getting updates has been an ongoing battle literally
>> from the first day I tried to use it.  That's the problem with it
>> being supported by a small public library.  I greatly appreatiate
>> it, and have nothing but good things to say, with the exception of
>> availability of updates.  I'm getting close to just rolling my own
>> internally at my company just so I have some control over the
>> process.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>   Kirby
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Whitebox-users mailing list
>> Whitebox-users@beau.org
>> http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
>
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:38:26 +0100
> From: "christian.huegel@fedoraforum.de" <christian.huegel@fedoraforum.de>
> To: "whitebox-users@beau.org" <whitebox-users@beau.org>
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Mirror list
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a "worldwide" Mirror list aviable for WBEL? The mirrors on the
> WBEL-site are all from US or New-Zeeland. I´m asking because its easyer
> to get an overview about the mirrors out there and easyier to  manage my
> yum.conf especially for people in Europe like me. Two examples about
> what i´m talking about can be found here [1] and here [2].
>
>
> [1] http://andrew.triumf.ca/pub/linux/redhat-mirror2.html
> [2] http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Christian
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:51:39 +0100
> From: Simone <simone72@email.it>
> To: denis@just-servers.co.uk
> Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Raid 1 Software raid
>
> This to get started:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-software-raid.html
>
> have a nice day
>
> Denis Croombs wrote:
>
>>Is there a quick howto for software Raid 1 during the install of whitebox 
>>as
>>I have never needed to do this before and cannot find out how to do it.
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Denis
>>
>>
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> Message: 9
> From: David Mir <mir@soartech.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:04:05 -0500
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Organization: ---
> Subject: [WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing
>
>
> Sorry I sent this out on Monday but used wrong reply address so it never 
> got
> posted |-) .
>
> After reading through the mailing list archives, trying several servers 
> and
> comparing packages to RHEL3 I realized that Whitebox Repository packages 
> are
> not being updated (I saw the post from Vikki).  One of my biggest fears in
> choosing a RHEL clone was that the support for packages would stop. 
> Before I
> start getting flames back....stop and save your energy.... I'm very 
> grateful
> and not complaining but I believe that Whitebox has a pretty big base.
>
> According to distrowatch:
> Top 5 RHEL-based distributions
> 1. White Box Enterprise Linux
> 2. CentOS
> 3. Lineox Enterprise Linux
> 4. Tao Linux
> 5. Fermi Linux
>
> But all these other distros have the updated packages, again put down the
> keyboard and stop the flame reply, I'm getting to my point soon.  With all
> these people using this distro, there should be no excuse for this! John 
> and
> Vikki can't be expected to do this all by themselves.  Yes I know I should
> have posted this to the dev list but I think more people look at this 
> list.
> This is the time to create a structure to have the users set up RPMS.  I, 
> for
> one, volunteer my services/bandwidth(cable modem anyway :-P)/server/time 
> to
> compile the packages and upload them to a central rsync server to 
> propagate
> to all the others.   So if anyone knows the best way to set this up please
> feel free to post this, it would save me the time to find out.  I think 
> what
> we need is:
>
> 1) Easiest way to get new released SRPMS for RHEL (obviously an automated
> process not "goto RH web site")
>
> 2) Automated way for compiling SRPMS and for the different supported
> platforms
>
> 3) Way to keep track who has what SRPMS (I mean how many SRPMS does RH
> release?  if it is not too much I would do it all)
>
> 4) Testing and QA on RPMS also Checksum sig etc.
>
> If anyone else thinks other things should be added feel free to add to the
> list.
>
>
> Again I'm just here to make the distro better not to bad mouth (beside I 
> have
> updated about 20 workstations to whitebox I would hate to have to switch).
>
> -- 
> David Mir
> Sys Admin
> mir@_remove_MEsoartech.com
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:12:43 -0500
> From: William Warren <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Raid 1 Software raid
>
> so if i read this correctly..software raid in linux is restricted
> to mirroring ont he same drive?  That defeats the purpose of
> having Raid then..that is not Raid that is imply mirroring on the
> same drive.  Correct me if i am wrong.  Raid from what i know is
> supposed to be across multiple disks..how do you make a ture
> software Raid span across multiple disks(as per Raid 1 and Raid 5)?
>
>
> Simone wrote:
>> This to get started:
>>
>> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-software-raid.html
>>
>>
>> have a nice day
>>
>> Denis Croombs wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a quick howto for software Raid 1 during the install of
>>> whitebox as
>>> I have never needed to do this before and cannot find out how to do it.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Denis
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 17:23:07 +0100
> From: Michiel van Es <michiele@info.nl>
> To: David Mir <mir@soartech.com>
> CC: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing
>
>
>
> David Mir wrote:
>> Sorry I sent this out on Monday but used wrong reply address so it never 
>> got
>> posted |-) .
>>
>> After reading through the mailing list archives, trying several servers 
>> and
>> comparing packages to RHEL3 I realized that Whitebox Repository packages 
>> are
>> not being updated (I saw the post from Vikki).  One of my biggest fears 
>> in
>> choosing a RHEL clone was that the support for packages would stop. 
>> Before I
>> start getting flames back....stop and save your energy.... I'm very 
>> grateful
>> and not complaining but I believe that Whitebox has a pretty big base.
>>
>> According to distrowatch:
>> Top 5 RHEL-based distributions
>> 1. White Box Enterprise Linux
>> 2. CentOS
>> 3. Lineox Enterprise Linux
>> 4. Tao Linux
>> 5. Fermi Linux
>>
>> But all these other distros have the updated packages, again put down the
>> keyboard and stop the flame reply, I'm getting to my point soon.  With 
>> all
>> these people using this distro, there should be no excuse for this! John 
>> and
>> Vikki can't be expected to do this all by themselves.  Yes I know I 
>> should
>> have posted this to the dev list but I think more people look at this 
>> list.
>> This is the time to create a structure to have the users set up RPMS.  I, 
>> for
>> one, volunteer my services/bandwidth(cable modem anyway :-P)/server/time 
>> to
>> compile the packages and upload them to a central rsync server to 
>> propagate
>> to all the others.   So if anyone knows the best way to set this up 
>> please
>> feel free to post this, it would save me the time to find out.  I think 
>> what
>> we need is:
>>
>> 1) Easiest way to get new released SRPMS for RHEL (obviously an automated
>> process not "goto RH web site")
>>
>> 2) Automated way for compiling SRPMS and for the different supported
>>  platforms
>>
>> 3) Way to keep track who has what SRPMS (I mean how many SRPMS does RH
>> release?  if it is not too much I would do it all)
>>
>> 4) Testing and QA on RPMS also Checksum sig etc.
>>
>> If anyone else thinks other things should be added feel free to add to 
>> the
>> list.
>>
>>
>> Again I'm just here to make the distro better not to bad mouth (beside I 
>> have
>> updated about 20 workstations to whitebox I would hate to have to 
>> switch).
>>
> I 100% agree with you?
> Why aren't there any plans for Whitebox like distributing the updates?
> Why are there so much single points of failures?
> Cann't most of these task (rebuilding the source rpm's,providing a yum
> repository) be delegated to other people EXCEPT for the maintainer of
> White Box?
>
> Michiel
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:28:15 -0000 (GMT)
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Raid 1 Software raid
> From: "Conor Wynne" <weeboy@conorwynne.com>
> To: "William Warren" <hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
> Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Reply-To: weeboy@conorwynne.com
>
>
>> so if i read this correctly..software raid in linux is restricted
>> to mirroring ont he same drive?  That defeats the purpose of
>> having Raid then..that is not Raid that is imply mirroring on the
>> same drive.  Correct me if i am wrong.  Raid from what i know is
>> supposed to be across multiple disks..how do you make a ture
>> software Raid span across multiple disks(as per Raid 1 and Raid 5)?
>
> You read it wrong - mind you, I have not read it either.
> But I have RAID1's for _this_ server, and a RAID5 for my data on an
> external storage box.
>
> Each RAID1 has two members, the RAID5 has three at the moment.
>
> -- 
> Conor Wynne,
> Dublin,
> Irlande.
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:29:38 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Rsync Updates Organizing
> From: "William Hooper" <whooperhsd2@earthlink.net>
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
>
>
> David Mir said:
> [snip]
>> I, for
>> one, volunteer my services/bandwidth(cable modem anyway :-P)/server/time
>> to compile the packages and upload them to a central rsync server to
>> propagate to all the others.
>
> Feel free to set it up.  However, judging from past threads about it, this
> is not how John wants to handle "Official" WBEL updates.
>
> There is nothing stopping anyone from setting up their own repo and
> getting other people to mirror it.
>
> -- 
> William Hooper
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:30:55 -0000 (GMT)
> From: "Vic" <whitebox@beer.org.uk>
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Reply-To: whitebox@beer.org.uk
> Subject: [WBEL-users] WhiteBox and SATA
>
> Hi All.
>
> Sorry if I'm hashing over old ground here - I've not finished reading
> through the archies yet (any chance of a search option there?).
>
> I'm specifying a server at the moment, and I'd like to run WB on it (I've
> had a WB machine for a number of months now, and it's rather good, isn't
> it?). But I've run out of IDE ports, and I'm toying with the idea of using
> the SATA ports on the MoBo.
>
> At this point, I get rather nervous - I've not yet owned a SATA drive,
> I've only ever seen one, and that had *loads* of problems[1]. Now from
> what I've read, the chipset I'm planning on using (SiS 964) is supported
> by libata, so I might be in luck...
>
> So - anyone tried anything like this? Any advice, other than 
> RTFM/RTFA/STFW?
>
> Ta!
>
> Vic.
>
>
> [1] That'll teach him to use Windoze ;-)
>
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