Questions[sles](server)

I have Suse Linux 12.1 and i am trying to mount a single RAID 1 disk, to explore the files in it. However when mounting it:

 # mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
  mount: unknown filesystem type 'linux_raid_member' 

I started reading around and many advised to just force the filessystem type

  # mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/test
  mount: /dev/sdc1 already mounted or /mnt/test busy

when trying

 umount /dev/sdc1                 
 umount: /dev/sdc1: not mounted

Could someone provide some advise?

I am running my machines insed an ESXI server and it is a virtual disk. However this should not play, as this disks are not used by any other machines

thaknks!

I use the following command to create a user in a linux machine:

useradd -d /home/dummy -g idiots -m -p 12345689 dummy

The user is created and the home directory as well.
The problem is that I can not log-in to the system using this account since the -p expects the encrypted password returned by crypto.

Question:I want to create a user via a bash script and I don't know the encrypted password by crypto. How can I do it so that I am able to create this user automatically via a script and get arround the problem with the password?

I have to add some archive\staging storage to an SLES 10 Server. The requirement is to present fairly large volumes (9-20TB each approx, 60TB or so in total) that will be used to store archive data (literally, this is for a library) comprising large image files (150Meg Tiff's for the most part) and large tarballs. The data will be overwhelmingly biased to read IO, certainly >95% and probably over 99%.

The storage has already been purchased - a Dell MD3000 SAS array daisy chained with 2 MD1000's fully populated with 2TB 7200 RPM SATA drives, 45 drives in total. The stack of arrays is connected using two dual ported external SAS adapters ie there are 4 paths to the stack.

My intention is to configure these as a set of 4 volumes sitting on 4 RAID groups with one hot spare per array. All groups will be RAID 6 with 7 or 14 drives, and each RAID group will be presented as a single LUN using all of the capacity in that group. On the SLES side these need to be formatted as XFS volumes.

I have limited experience with SLES (and Linux in general) and I'm looking for some recommendations about this, specifically:

1. Are there any specific things to be careful about when configuring XFS volumes of this size under SLES 10, ie are default settings going to be OK given the IO profile?
2. What's the best way to initialize\partition\format these? I used Parted to set a Disk label and the YAST Partition Manager (accepting all defaults) to create and format the XFS volume for my initial test.
3. How do I set up multipathing? When I present an initial test volume it appears as four separate devices (/dev/sdl,/dev/sdm,/dev/sdn and /dev/sdn). What do I do to work with this as a single volume?
4. In my initial testing I'm seeing transfer rates from an existing EMC Clariion SAN volume of around 30Meg/sec. This is a lot lower than I'd expect, even accounting for the RAID 6 write penalty I'd expected to see something in the ballpark of 70-100Meg/sec.
5. How can I tell if everything is OK - where should I look for errors\warnings etc? The YAST Partition editor takes a very long time to launch for example and I'd like to understand why.
6. Would you partition this differently and\or use a different filesystem and if so why?

The server is a Dell 2950 - I haven't checked the detailed specs but top shows utilization hovering in the low single digits at most.

I'm on SLES 10.1, and trying to configure vsftpd to allow root logins. Does anyone know how to do this?

So far, I have this:

local_enable=YES
chroot_local_user=NO
userlist_enable=YES
userlist_deny=NO
userlist_file=/etc/vsftpd.users

And I've added root to /etc/vsftpd.users. When I try to log in, here's what I get:

$ ftp susebox
Connected to susebox.example.com.
220-FTP Server (user '[email protected]')
220
User (susebox.example.com:(none)): root
331-Password:
331
Password:
Connection closed by remote host.

C:\>

BTW, if you don't know the answer, please don't bother lecturing me about how I shouldn't allow root logins. I know what I'm doing, and I accept full responsibility for any ruptures in the space-time continuum that may result.

I need to install version 1.4 of Subversion on a Suse 10.1 (64 bit) box. I can't change either of these two versions and there isn't an RPM for this distro. After looking around I assume that I'll have to create an RPM myself. Is there a better way than this? If not does anyone have any tips on the process?

I don't need a step-by-step tutorial, just a basic outline of the process.