[Lustre-discuss] Centos 5 with Lustre
Aaron Knister
aaron at iges.org
Thu Feb 14 13:31:20 PST 2008
Your management doesn't really have reason to be concerned. If
something horrific happens to CentOS you could pretty much migrate to
RHEL with minimal effort.
-Aaron
On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Steden Klaus wrote:
>
> CentOS is a de-branded version of Redhat enterprise, so they are
> effectively binary-compatible. CentOS does not provide commercial
> support.
>
> Our clusters use it exclusively with no issues, and I frequently mix
> RPMs from both.
>
> Klaus
>
>
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> Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Centos 5 with Lustre
>
> Greetings,
>
> (This my second try at getting this post to the list;
> hope this one goes through ;-)
>
> Next week I'll start installation of our test lustre
> cluster. If everything goes well it will eventually
> hold all our data (we have about 350 TB).
>
> Would it be unwise to use Centos rather than RHEL?
>
> In my pre-tests (running with vmware) it seems to
> run fine with CentOS 5.
>
> Management, however, is concerned. Do they have
> reason to be?
>
> thanks much,
> JR
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Aaron Knister
Associate Systems Analyst
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
(301) 595-7000
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