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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 06:58:36PM +0000, bad apple wrote: > I fear a little for your sysadmin skills Your fears are entirely justified. I wouldn't call myself a sysadmin. I just happen to administer some systems, because I work for a small company, but I'm far from perfect at it. If I was I wouldn't have asked these questions. :-) > What strange world do you live in where optimising the kernel on > mission-critical production systems is "playing around"?!!! For complicated reasons, these systems aren't mission critical in that them going down is frustrating and takes some time, but has no long-term impact. And have I mentioned I work for a small company. > I think that perhaps the rationale behind formatting your RAID array > with ext2 could do with some explanation as well :] It runs ext3, not ext2, sorry. Which makes it slightly better and, especially given that these machines were set up 5 years ago. Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq