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

[Ryan Novosielski]

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*?

> On Sep 7, 2018, at 6:08 PM, Felipe Knop <knop at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Ty,
> 
> For queries on Scale versions and specific distros, please refer to the FAQ:
> 
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html
> 
> Table 33. IBM Spectrum Scale for Linux RedHat kernel support
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> 
> 7.5	3.10.0-862.el7	3.10.0-862.el7	From V4.1.1.20 in the 4.1.1 release
> From V4.2.3.9 in the 4.2 release
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> From V5.0.1.1 in the 5.0 release
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> From V4.1.1.20 in the 4.1.1 release
> From V4.2.3.9 in the 4.2 release
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> From V5.0.1.1 in the 5.0 release
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> 
> Assuming the levels of CentOS and RHEL are the same (they are supposed to be?), then CentOS 7.5 should work with Scale V5.0.1.1 or later.
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> Felipe
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> <graycol.gif>Ty Tran ---09/07/2018 05:05:52 PM---Good Morning – We have been trying to install V5.0.0 and CentOS 7.5 but it doesn’t seem to like the
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> From:  Ty Tran <ty.tran at applieddatasystems.com>
> To:  "gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org>
> Date:  09/07/2018 05:05 PM
> Subject:  [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum V5.0.0 and CentOS 7.5
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> Good Morning –
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> We have been trying to install V5.0.0 and CentOS 7.5 but it doesn’t seem to like the new Kernel. Does anyone have this running and do we need to do anything special? Or must we go to V5.0.1?
> 
> TQT
> 
> Ty Q. Tran
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