[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs 4.2.3.6 stops working withkernel 3.10.0-862.2.3.el7

[Stephen Ulmer]

> On May 15, 2018, at 5:28 AM, Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 09:30 -0400, Felipe Knop wrote:
>> All,
>> 
>> Support for RHEL 7.5 and kernel level 3.10.0-862 in Spectrum Scale is
>> planned for upcoming PTFs on 4.2.3 and 5.0. Since code changes are
>> needed in Scale to support this kernel level, upgrading to one of
>> those upcoming PTFs will be required in order to run with that
>> kernel.
>> 
> 
> One wonders what the mmfs26/mmfslinux does that you can't achieve with
> fuse these days? Sure I understand back in the day fuse didn't exist
> and it could be a significant rewrite of code to use fuse instead. On
> the plus side though it would make all these sorts of security issues,
> can't upgrade your distro etc. disappear.
> 
> JAB.
> 
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> 
> 

More lines of code. More code is bad. :)

Liberty,

-- 
Stephen