[gpfsug-discuss] gpfs 4.2.3.6 stops workingwithkernel3.10.0-862.2.3.el7

[Stijn De Weirdt]

hi stephen,

> There isn’t a flaw in that argument, but where the security experts
> are concerned there is no argument.
we have gpfs clients hosts where users can login, we can't update those.
that is a certain worry.

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> Apparently this time Red Hat just told all of their RHEL 7.4
> customers to upgrade to RHEL 7.5, rather than back-porting the
> security patches. So this time the retirement to upgrade
> distributions is much worse than normal.
there's no 'this time', this is the default rhel support model. only
with EUS you get patches for non-latest minor releases.

stijn

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