[KLUG Members] Speaker For 2002-12-10 Needed

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>so I'll ask you: What packages do you currently compile from scratch?
>On current Redhat I only have to build Samba, Cyrus IMAPd, and
>bind-sdb.  As of RH8 SASL v2 is included, including saslauthd.  Sendmail
>supports SASL and LDAP out-of-the-box, and I expect just about
>everything network-servicey to be linked to SASL.  SASL provides support
>for Kerberos.  Specifically Samba needs to have --with-acl-support and
>--with-ldapsam.  I don't expect distro's to provide bind-sdb,  but
>building that is trivial.  It would take alot to make me trust any
>distro's version of Cyrus, they're are just too many ways to build that
>monster.  Primarily a server friendly installer is by current beef (with
>RedHat) that means LVM, MD, XFS, and the ability to setup authentication
>.  RedHat provides authconfig with works most of the time.  Better
>default sysctl setting would be nice as well, but those are pretty
>trivial to change.

One thing that RH's MD/LVM installer doesn't provide is tunability.  With MD the
stripe size is important, and can't be adjusted post-created.  LVM also lets you
set the stripe size in additional to continuity/scatter of block allocation and
the read ahead sector count on the LV level, as well as the extent size on the
VG level (used much less often).  Access to these values in the installer would
be nice.   Otherwise one installs the OS, and then manually creates the data
VG/LVs in order to have finer control.

Hey, you asked what it would take to impress me.