Re: [vserver] CentOS 5.3 host update/upgrade

From: John A. Sullivan III <jsullivan_at_opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Thu 16 Apr 2009 - 17:24:07 BST
Message-Id: <1239899047.6601.79.camel@jaspav.missionsit.net.missionsit.net>

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 08:51 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:39 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> >> Anyone (John?) running CentOS 5 as the host distribution?
> >>
> >> If so have any of you updated to CentOS 5.3?
> >>
> >> And ... John have you finished your tests on the patched yum? Results?
> >> Good, bad or ugly? :-)
> >>
> >>
> >> \\||/
> >> Rod
>
> Sorry I missed that there were two of you with first name of John.
>
> As I asked John Alberts, did you do a yum update or fresh install to get
> to 5.3?
Fresh installation in my case - John
>
> > So far, it is working fine. Guest installations of both CentOS 5.3 and
> > Ubuntu 8.0.4 all ran fine. vyum from the host and yum from the guest
> > appear to be running fine. Cloning is fine. We are having a bit of an
> > issue with hashify but I do not believe this is at all related to yum.
>
> Yeah I remember a thread on this. I haven't redone a vhashify for
> awhile. Of course I'm currently only running about 20 some odd guests
> per host so don't have a disk space issue. But the first time I did a
> unification of the whole server the 30% (maybe more -- it was a long
> time ago) recovered space was impressive.
>
>
> \\||/
> Rod

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