[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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