Saturday, January 25, 2014

RHEL 7 beta test

Some highlights from RHEL7 beta, planing to put one to production asap.


  • LIO kernel target subsystem - better storage support
  • LVM2 replace LVM with support of thin provisioning
  • No more 32 bits
  • XFS and Btrfs!
  • Swap memory compression
  • Fast block devices caching slower block devices
  • automate relocate processes and memory for NUMA performance improvement
  • APIC virtualization
  • Long list of kvm improvement, including hot plug vCPU
  • rgmanager, luci, ricci, ccs replaced with pacemaker (about time...)
  • ruby 2.0.0, python 2.7.5! It's almost latest and greatest now, but for how long?
  • co-pilot, performance tools. I cann't wait to dive in
  • chrony replace ntp
  • firewalld is a dynamic firewall daemon
  • OpenLMI (another puppet & chef altnative?)
  • OpenSSH chroot shell logins
  • Multiple required authentications
  • Need learn how systemd works
  • Gnome 3, with screencast support
  • DM-Multipath improved performance
  • linux container as another interesting lightweight replacement for kvm 
  • tickless kernel (great for battery life, also less CPU interrupt)


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