Re: FCRC: writing on the wall
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 17:01:27 -0500
> IT never wants anyone to run servers except them (and to some extent I
> agree, an un-administered server is a hacker playground, which is not just
> that dept's problem). It's the things that FCRC does that IT (specifically
> tech support) wants to do that I surmise is causing friction (and I could go
> on and on about why I think that is). Perhaps what needs to be done is to
> show IT that it doesn't want to do the things the FCRC does. I know you
> wouldn't want to do this, but perhaps sharing administrative access to the
> servers would appease IT? This is essentially giving root to Paul or Mike,
> how terrible would that be?
I don't have a problem with that at all. I think the problem though is that IT
doesn't consider anyone else to be competent of running servers. That's
obviously a problem, since IT will refuse to run servers for certain necessary
services. It's ridiculous.
> P.S. Neil/John, I know you guys must play with bigger drives than I do,
> which of the journalling FS's for Linux would you say is more ready for
> prime time? I'm thinking of deploying ext3 for these 20GB drives.
I *think* ReiserFS is more mature. I haven't tried either one though. Biggest
drive I've got is 16.8, and you think I'm gonna mess with it? :)
John
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