[lustre-discuss] Lustre 2.5.3 on centos 6.y with y>=5

Jon Tegner tegner at foi.se
Fri Oct 2 03:06:16 PDT 2015


Well, guess it depends on how secure your environment is.

We have no issues running 2.5.3 on CentOS-6.5 (we plan on moving to 
CentOS-7, but only once Luster-2.8 is released).

/jon

On 10/02/2015 11:59 AM, Thomas Lorenzen wrote:
> Hi'
>
> Yes, this happens when doing yum update. However, sticking with older 
> 6.x versions seems deprecated as per the following readme snippet of 
> centos, and therefore the question still goes, if lustre 2.5.3 (only 
> client) is bound to centos 6.5 explicitly or if centos 6.y with y>=5 
> will be good as well?
>
> #####
> This directory (and version of CentOS) is deprecated.  For normal users,
> you should use /6/ and not /6.5/ in your path. Please see this FAQ
> concerning the CentOS release scheme:
>
> https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General
>
> If you know what you are doing, and absolutely want to remain at the 6.5
> level, go to http://vault.centos.org/ for packages.
>
> Please keep in mind that 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 no longer gets any updates, nor
> any security fix's.
> #####
>
> Best regards.
>
> Thomas.
>
>
>
> Den 11:50 fredag den 2. oktober 2015 skrev Jon Tegner <tegner at foi.se>:
>
>
> I think this happens when you do a default upgrade. To prevent it I
> modified the files in /etc/yum.repos to explicitly point to "6.5".
> Originally they are linked to "6" (or a variable with that value).
>
> Regards,
>
> /jon
>
> On 10/02/2015 11:21 AM, Thomas Lorenzen wrote:
> > Hi'
> >
> > The support matrix states that lustre 2.5.3 is supported on centos
> > 6.5. However, it seems, that when updating a fresh centos 6.5, it
> > turns into centos 6.7. The kernel is still 2.6.32, but "sub version"
> > changes from -431 to -573.7.1. This makes installing the lustre client
> > packages fail due to the
>
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