Fedora 7 (Moonshine) released

Posted Jun 1, 2007 19:55 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #33263)
Parent article: Fedora 7 (Moonshine) released

The torrents are so absolutely useless - downloading from a handful of FTP mirrors using aria2c is much faster anyway.

64,650,264/2,900,602,880 Bytes 2% 13m09s 4430.20 KB/s 3 connections

This dialog kinda reminds me of Windows...

Even though I create swap first, it always ends up as sda2 after I added the root fs. Not nice.

XFS support has not improved at all. While GRUB supports XFS for long now (0.91, 0.97 if you take out the bugs), FC still insists /boot be not on one. Meh. And FC still does not use mdadm (inside initramfs) by default so autodetecting 1.x RAID superblocks (read: root filesystem with a v1 superblock) is a no-go. At least one other distro already does it for more than .. 6 months. Hm!

XFS & RAID

Posted Jun 1, 2007 22:50 UTC (Fri) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] (1 responses)

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/

XFS & RAID

Posted Jun 1, 2007 23:05 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (guest, #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.)