[gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum V5.0.0 and CentOS 7.5

[Florian Bachmann]

 From my experience you are better off with locking kernel packages at a 
known-to-work version in production (e.g. install yum-plugin-versionlock 
and do a yum versionlock "kernel*") and test new kernel versions in a 
test environment. You cannot rely on made up rules like "minor version 
updates will never break GPFS" or similiar; Linux kernel developers do 
not care if GPFS works or not.

Kind Regards
Florian


On 08.09.2018 04:13, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Someone asked me this the other day and I wasn’t quite sure of the answer: how likely is it that we will ever see/have we ever seen a kernel update (eg. 862.9.1 to 862.11.6) that breaks GPFS compatibility, or can one generally expect it will continue to work for 862*?