[gpfsug-discuss] RHEL9?

Christof Schmitt christof.schmitt at us.ibm.com
Wed Sep 14 18:28:01 BST 2022


On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 17:18 +0000, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Just while we’re talking about this, if I can offer a slight tangent,
> I’d appreciate it if IBM made sure to support the final point release
> of a RedHat major version, regardless of whether it has EUS status or
> not (I can’t speak to why it wouldn’t, or if that’s an unusual case).
> I don’t remember the specifics surrounding what happened with RHEL
> 7.8 and 7.9 at this point with Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.x (and it was
> also an unusual situation where DDN equipment got dead-ended, making
> moving to a later version much more complicated than it ordinarily
> would be), but I remember that I was stuck in a position of choosing
> between security patches or Spectrum Scale support. It’s
> understandable if the OS itself is no longer supported that we’d need
> to purchase EUS, but that wasn’t the case with RHEL 7.9.

I have no insight into the specific situation with 4.2.3 and DDN.

Looking at the current Spectrum Scale support: Both supported release
streams, 5.1.5 and 5.1.2 do support RHEL 7.9.

Christof


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