Subject: Re: [vserver] CentOS 5.3 host update/upgrade
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:24:07 -0400

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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