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XFS & RAID

XFS & RAID

Posted Jun 1, 2007 22:50 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Fedora 7 (Moonshine) released by jengelh
Parent article: Fedora 7 (Moonshine) released

You can look at ALT Linux 4.0 Server if you use XFS/RAID, guess you prefer stable power and stable software as well.

XFS has been a first-class filesystem from at least 2003 there, and we do mdassemble early. OpenVZ is integrated as well as chrooted and privilege-separated services (our sec team collides with Owl's one). There's apt-get, and package dependencies are probably the best of breed I've seen on RPM-based distros. There's control(8) enabling to minimize binary privileges (e.g. suid, sgid + particular group) *and* keep those over package upgrades.

In short, if you need XFS...

ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/4.0/Ser...
https://lists.altlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/community-en/


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XFS & RAID

Posted Jun 1, 2007 23:05 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

I forgot to add: SPARC64.

(And I do already have XFS/RAID-sb1 working. Only one file to patch - it was rather easy, but nevertheless, it is a bit annoying.)

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