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

[Stephen Ulmer]

> On May 15, 2018, at 11:55 PM, Stijn De Weirdt <stijn.deweirdt at ugent.be> wrote:
> 
> 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.

The original statement from Marc was about dedicated hardware for storage and/or file serving. If that’s not the use case, then neither his logic nor my support of it apply. 


>> 
>> 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
> 

You are correct! I did a quick check and most of my customers are enterprise-y, and many of them seem to have EUS. I thought it was standard, but it is not.  I could be mixing Red Hat up with another Linux vendor at this point…


Liberty,

-- 
Stephen