[KLUG Members] Re: Latest SUSE stability? -- It's always RedHat with Ext3 or XFS for me ... (fwd)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>Samba with LDAP SAM enabled.  For some reason RH doesn't ship it this
>>way,
>Then rebuild it from SRPMS.  It's not that hard.

That is what I currently do.  It isn't hard.  But 24 hours in a day, 48 
hours worth of things to do,  15 minutes compiling samba, etc... is 15 
minutes not doing something else.  And the filesystem issue is more than 
15 minutes.

>>although sendmail, etc... require the LDAP libs.  But then RH tends
>>to ship out of date Samba version anyway.
>AFAICT, RedHat "lags" the latest kernel, Samba, NFS, etc... by 1-2 months for
>"QA/regression testing" purposes.

Which i'm not benefitting (not fully) from anyway since I have to compile 
my own.

>>And possibly working ACL support.
>I've always preferred SGI XFS for ACLs because, again, it has had them since day
>1 on Linux (because it's a direct port from Irix).  They also have their
>"xfsdump" that preserves them.  I'm a "dump" bigot.

We currently use XFS,  one of the reasons RH is becoming irritating.

>>That gets me that many fewer things to hack/compile.
> I've always found it this simple (since early 2001):
> - SGI XFS Installer CD for RedHat

No, there is no such thing for 8.0.  And SGI said there isn't going to be.

> - Samba rebuild from SRPMs with LDAP/ACLs enabled

This is much less of an irritant than not being able to install with the 
filesystem you actually want to use.

>You only need to do the second once if just NFS install your own RPMset from a
>notebook.  That's what I do.  

I do that

>Too easy (and I think you're making this too hard).
>BTW, RedHat 8.0 is supposed to ship with ACL support in the kernel and compiled
>into Samba.

Yes, libacl and libacl-devel are installed.  Only they don't seem to work.  
I've been using ACLs for some time.  Not ruling out the possibility that 
listening the GW's speaches has lowered my IQ and hence I'm missing 
something obvious.