From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Evans Subject: Re: RAID5 - RAID6 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 01:09:45 -0800 Message-ID: <4877c76c1003080109mf1d65e7l3fabb6f675215808@mail.gmail.com> References: <4877c76c1003071931q4ede50c6p754e5478b07f2533@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Leslie Rhorer Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Leslie Rhorer wr= ote: >> Yes, it is for Squeeze, if you want the latest bugfixes and security >> updates you should seriously consider running debian-testing instead >> of stable. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0No, thanks. =A0I loaded "Squeeze" on another non-RAID = workstation in > order to alleviate a kernel bug causing problems with a 3G wireless m= odem. > It was quite unstable, and caused a number of issues, most problemati= cally > with the fact the distro assumes the system is not headless and would= lock > up tight on boot if no monitor is present. =A0All of the RAID systems= are > headless. =A0More importantly, stability is far and away the absolute= ly most > important requirement for these servers. =A0New features I can live w= ithout. > Bug fixes I don't need unless they directly affect the functioning of= the > system, which is highly focussed. =A0These systems have a handful of = very > basic, very mature apps. =A0They run NTP, FTP, SSH, rsync, NUT, SMART= , SAMBA, > NFS, and KDE. =A0One of them also runs Galleon, pyTivo, TyTool under = wine, and > openvpn server. =A0That's it. > >> Stable is reserved for 'mature' features. =A0Testing, as far >> as I'm aware, will almost never (and should never if you are paying >> attention) cause data-loss, but might occasionally get in to a >> situation where something breaks; mostly just during upgrades (but >> then that's true of any upgrade). > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0It's true no data was lost, but then it's a little dif= ficult to lose > data if the system hangs hard on boot. =A0I had to yank most of the g= uts out > of the system to get it stable. =A0That, plus the new version of KDE = really > sucks badly, and I could not get Kpackage to work properly at all. =A0= It also > did something really goofy to pppd, but I was able to work around it = by > re-trying the pppd launch repeatedly on boot until it works. > > Oh, is THAT where Ubuntu got 10.04's silly framebuffer required to boot issue from... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html