[ale] Linux Server distros

[Benjie]

Why so much resistance to LVM?  Volume management is a very mature and
mainstream technology present in most *nix.

Benjie

On 7/25/06, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> > Here's what I doing:
> >
> > I am setting up a few vmware server servers.  On the base install I
> > don't need anything that vmware server doesn't need.  I don't
> > particularly need LVM, but when using a RedHat distro (or derivative)
> > LVM (and several other totally unnecessary things) must exist for the
> > base install to exist. <- F**KING CRAZY!  I don't need nfs, or nfs libs,
> > hotplug (it's freaking server!), USB (who uses USB mice/drives/etc on a
> > server?), DHCP (argh!).  It just amazes me that in this day and age of
> > using Linux on so many _servers_, it requires that the operator have a
> > team of engineers to re-engineer a "professional" distribution in order
> > to use it in their environment.
>
> I normally install RHEL / Centos / Fedora using something like
>
> %packages --nobase --resolvedeps
> @Core
> yum
> openssh-server
> openssh-clients
> postfix
>
> No nfs in sight. There is still LVM, but hey, I use LVM
>
> As for USB, hotplug, etc. I haven't bought an x86 server in over a year
> that wasn't USB-only. PS/2 is dead, dead, dead. Your VAR just hasn't
> gotten the word yet ;-)
>
> later,
> chris
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