Red Hat Enterprise Linux/6

红帽企业 Linux 6.0 正式版发布 (2010.11.10)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 一个在创新、洞察力、可靠性等方面处于领导力的平台。

RHEL 6最大内存支持量从前一版本的RHEL的1TB扩充至64TB，最大CPU支持数从192个扩充至4096个，文件系统支持从16TB扩充到100TB的提升。

RHEL 6包含了超过2000个包，相对之前的版本而言增加了85%的代码量，一共增添了1800个新特性，解决了14000多个bug。

新版带来了一个完全重写的进程调度器和一个全新的多处理器锁定机制，并利用NVIDIA图形处理器的优势对GNOME和KDE做了重大升级，新的系统安全服务守护程序（SSSD）功能允许集中身份管理，而SELinux的沙盒功能允许管理员更好地处理不受信任的内容。

RHEL 6内置的新组件有GCC 4.4（包括向下兼容RHEL 4和5组件）、OpenJDK 6、Tomcat 6、Ruby 1.8.7和Rails 3、PHP 5.3.2与Perl 5.10.1，数据库前端有PostgreSQL 8.4.4, MySQL 5.1.47和SQLite 3.6.20。

RHEL 6带来以下技术更新与创新：

高效性,可伸缩,可靠性

可伸缩

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 支持更多的网络接口, 更多的CPU核, 更多的线程, 和更多的内存.

高效的调度

CFS 调度器schedules the next task to be run based on which task has consumed the least time, task prioritization, and other factors. Using hardware awareness and multi-core topologies, the CFS optimizes task performance and power consumption.

Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS)

RAS hardware-based hot add of CPUs and memory is enabled.
When supported by machine check hardware, the system can recover from some previously fatal hardware errors with minimal disruption.
Memory pages with errors can be declared as "poisoned", and will be avoided.

文件系统

The new default file system, ext4, is faster, more robust, and scales to 16TB.
The Scalable File System Add-On contains the XFS file system, which scales to 100TB.
The Resilient Storage Add-On includes the high availability, clustered GFS2 file system.
NFSv4 is significantly improved over NFSv3, and is backwards compatible.
Fuse allows filesystems to run in user space allowing testing and development on newer fused-based filesystems (such as cloud filesystems).

高可用性

The web interface based on Conga has been re-designed for added functionality and ease of use.
The cluster group communication system, Corosync, is mature, secure, high performance, and light-weight.
Nodes can re-enable themselves after failure without administrative intervention using unfencing.
Unified logging and debugging simplifies administrative work.
Virtualized KVM guests can be run as managed services which enables fail-over, including between physical and virtual hosts.
Centralized configuration and management is provided by Conga.
A single cluster command can be used to manage system logs from different services, and the logs have a consistent format that is easier to parse.

能量管理

The tickless kernel feature keeps systems in the idle state longer, resulting in net power savings.
Active State Power Management and Aggressive Link Power Management provide enhanced system control, reducing the power consumption of I/O subsystems. Administrators can actively throttle power levels to reduce consumption.
Realtime drive access optimization reduces filesystem metadata write overhead.

资源管理

系统资源分配

Cgroups organize system tasks so that they can be tracked, and so that other system services can control the resources that cgroup tasks may consume (Partitioning). Two user-space tools, cgexec and cgclassify, provide easy configuration and management of cgroups.
Cpuset applies CPU resource limits to cgroups, allowing processing performance to be allocated across tasks.
The memory resource controller applies memory resource limits to cgroups.
The network resource controller applies network traffic limits to cgroups.

存储

A snapshot of a logical volume may be merged back into the original logical volume, reverting changes that occurred after the snapshot.
Mirror logs of regions that need to be synchronized can be replicated, supporting high availability.
LVM hot spare allows the behavior of a mirrored logical volume after a device failure to be explicitly defined.
DM-Multipath allows paths to be dynamically selected based on queue size or I/O time data.
Very large SAN-based storage is supported.
Automated I/O alignment and self-tuning is supported.
Filesystem usage information is provided to the storage device, allowing administrators to use thin provisioning to allocate storage on-demand.
SCSI and ATA standards have been extended to provide alignment and I/O hints, allowing automated tuning and I/O alignment.
DIF/DIX provides better integrity checks for application data.

网络

UDP Lite tolerates partially corrupted packets to provide better service for multimedia protocols, such as VOIP, where partial packets are better than none.
Multiqueue Networking increases processing parallelism for better performance from multiple processors and CPU cores.
Large Receive Offload (LRO) and Generic Receive Offload (GRO) aggregate packets for better performance.
Support for Data Center Bridging includes data traffic priorities and flow control for increased Quality of Service.
New support for software Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is provided.
iSCSI partitions may be used as either root or boot filesystems.
IPv6 is supported.

安全

访问控制

SELinux policies have been extended to more system services.
SELinux sandboxing allows users to run untrusted applications safely and securely.
File and process permissions have been systematically reduced whenever possible to reduce the risk of privilege escalation.
New utilities and system libraries provide more control over process privileges for easily managing reduced capabilities.
Walk-up kiosks (as in banks, HR departments, etc.) are protected by SELinux access control, with on-the-fly environment setup and take-down, for secure public use.
Openswan includes a general implementation of IPsec that works with Cisco IPsec.

安全策略的强制执行和验证

OpenScap standardizes system security information, enabling automatic patch verification and system compromise evaluation.

身份验证

The new System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) provides centralized access to identity and authentication resources, enables caching and offline support.
OpenLDAP is a compliant LDAP client with high availability from N-way MultiMaster replication, and performance improvements.

稳定的应用开发和产品平台

Web基础设施

This release of Apache includes many improvements, see Overview of new features in Apache 2.2
A major revision of Squid includes manageability and IPv6 support
Memcached 1.4.4 is a high-performance and highly scalable, distributed, memory-based object caching system that enhances the speed of dynamic web applications.

Java

OpenJDK 6 is an open source implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition (SE) 6 specification. It is TCK-certified based on the IcedTea project, and the implementation of a Java Web Browser plugin and Java web start removes the need for proprietary plugins.
Tight integration of OpenJDK and Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes support for Java probes in SystemTap to enable better debugging for Java.
Tomcat 6 is an open source and best-of-breed application server running on the Java platform. With support for Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), Tomcat provides a robust environment for developing and deploying dynamic web applications.

开发

Ruby 1.8.7 is included, and Rails 3 supports dependencies.
Version 4.4 of gcc includes OpenMP3 conformance for portable parallel programs, Integrated Register Allocator, Tuples, additional C++0x conformance implementations, and debuginfo handling improvements.
Improvements to the libraries include malloc optimizations, improved speed and efficiency for large blocks, NUMA considerations, lock-free C++ class libraries, NSS crypto consolidation for LSB 4.0 and FIPS level 2, and improved automatic parallel mode in the C++ library.
Gdb 7.1.29 improvements include C++ function, class, templates, variables, constructor / destructor improvements, catch / throw and exception improvements, large program debugging optimizations, and non-blocking thread debugging (threads can be stopped and continued independently).
TurboGears 2 is a powerful Internet-enabled framework that enables rapid web application development and deployment in Python.
Updates to the popular web scripting and programming languages PHP (5.3.2), Perl (5.10.1) include many improvements.

应用调试

SystemTap uses the kernel to generate non-intrusive debugging information about running applications.
The tuned daemon monitors system use and uses that information to automatically and dynamically adjust system settings for better performance.
SELinux can be used to observe, then tighten application access to system resources, leading to greater security.

数据库

PostgreSQL 8.4.4 includes many improvements, please see PostgreSQL 8.4 Feature List for details.
MySQL 5.1.47 improvement are listed here: What Is New in MySQL 5.1.
SQLite 3.6.20 includes significant performance improvements, and many important bug fixes. Note that this release has made incompatible changes to the internal OS interface and VFS layers (compared to earlier releases).

系统 API / ABI 稳定性

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Application Compatibility Specification document defines stable, public, system interfaces for the full ten-year life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. During that time, applications will not be affected by security errata or service packs, and will not require re-certification. Backward compatibility for the core ABI is maintained across major releases, allowing applications to span subsequent releases.

集成虚拟化

内核级虚拟化

The KVM hypervisor is fully integrated into the kernel, so all Red Hat Enterprise Linux system improvements benefit the virtualized environment.
The application environment is consistent for physical and virtual systems.
Deployment flexibility, provided by the ability to easily move guests between hosts, allows administrators to consolidate resources onto fewer machines during quiet times, or free up hardware for maintenance downtime.

Leverages Kernel Features

Hardware abstraction enables applications to move from physical to virtualized environments independently of the underlying hardware.
Increased scalability of CPUs and memory provides more guests per server.
Block storage benefits from selectable I/O schedulers and support for asynchronous I/O.
Cgroups and related CPU, memory, and networking resource controls provide the ability to reduce resource contention and improve overall system performance.
Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) features (e.g., hot add of processors and memory, machine check handling, and recovery from previously fatal errors) minimize downtime.
Multicast bridging includes the first release of IGMP snooping (in IPv4) to build intelligent packet routing and enhance network efficiency.
CPU affinity assigns guests to specific CPUs.

客户机加速

CPU masking allows all guests to use the same type of CPU.
SR-IOV virtualizes physical I/O card resources, primarily networking, allowing multiple guests to share a single physical resource.
Message signaled interrupts deliver interrupts as specific signals, increasing the number of interrupts.
Transparent hugepages provides significant performance improvements for guest memory allocation.
Kernel Same Page (KSM) provides reuse of identical pages across virtual machines (known as deduplication in the storage context).
The tickless kernel defines a stable time model for guests, avoiding clock drift.
Advanced paravirtualization interfaces include non-traditional devices such as the clock (enabled by the tickless kernel), interrupt controller, spinlock subsystem, and vmchannel.

安全

In virtualized environments, sVirt (powered by SELinux) protects guests from one another

微软Windows支持

Windows WHQL-certified drivers enable virtualized Windows systems, and allow Microsoft customers to receive technical support for virtualized instances of Windows Server

企业可管理性

安装、更新与部署

Anaconda supports installation of a “minimal platform” as a specific server installation, or as a strategy for reducing the number of software packages to increase security.
Red Hat Network and Red Hat Network Satellite continue to provide management, provisioning, and monitoring for large deployments.
Installation options have been reorganized into “workload profiles” so that each system installation will provide the right software for specific tasks.
Dracut, a replacement for mkinitrd, minimizes the impact of underlying hardware changes, is more maintainable, and makes it easier to support third party drivers.
The new yum history command provides information about yum transactions, and supports undo and redo of selected operations.
Yum and RPM offer significantly improved performance.
RPM signatures use the Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA256) for data verification and authentication, improving security.
Storage devices can be designated for encryption at installation time, protecting user and system data. Key escrow allows recovery of lost keys.
Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability (SBLIM) manages systems using Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM).
ABRT enhanced error reporting speeds triage and resolution of software failures.

任务委派

PolicyKit allows administrators to provide users access to privileged operations, such adding a printer or rebooting a desktop, without granting administrative privileges.

打印

Improvements include better printing, printer discovery, and printer configuration services from cups and system-config-printer.
SNMP-based monitoring of ink and toner supply levels and printer status provides easier monitoring to enable efficient inventory management of ink and toner cartridges.
Automatic PPD configuration for postscript printers, where PPD option values are queried from printer, are available in CUPS web interface.

微软互操作

Samba improvements include support for Windows 2008R2 trust relationships: Windows cross-forest, transitive trust, and one-way domain trust.
Applications can use OpenChange to gain access to Microsoft Exchange servers using native protocols, allowing mail clients like Evolution to have tighter integration with Exchange servers.

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