CentOS

Hello, Does anybody know what the state of SATA hotswap is? I'm using CentOS 5. My goal is to use SATA hard disks for backup rather than a tape drive. I have a PCI SATA card that supposedly physically supports hotswap, and a swap bay in the front of the PC. Just for the heck of it, I inserted the dr...

I ran into this exact same problem recently. After much testing and pulling-of-hair, I believe it to be a bug in the driver when operating at gigabit speeds. Setting it to 100 Mbit, it seems to work fine. in the file: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX add the line: ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off ...

Well, I have isolated _what_ is causing the issue, I'm just not sure _why_. The original 10,000+ files were copied over SCP. I have found some unusual types of files looking through the directories manually, such as soft links that link to its own directory, filenames that start with a hyphen, and o...

Hi Folks, I also posted this on the CentOS mailing list last night, so apologies if anybody sees it twice. I'm getting a kernel panic on a machine apparently when doing any non-trivial NFS transfer. I'm trying my best to identify the cause if possible, but it happens sporadically. The server will ru...

Thanks for the suggestion, that definitely seems to be the case. I'm setting up an LVS cluster, and this only happens when a machine is configured to use the LVS router as a gateway. However, I guess I'm confused as to why this only happens on some machines configured with that gateway, and not othe...

Hi Folks, I have a weird problem I've never run into before, and I can't seem to make heads or tails of it. I have five identical machines, all with fresh installs of CentOS 5, with the same installation options, nothing different between them, except IP addresses (and they're sequential, 100, 101, ...