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    Well, guess it depends on how secure your environment is. <br>
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    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).<br>
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    /jon<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/02/2015 11:59 AM, Thomas Lorenzen
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        <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443777126606_9008">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
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        <pre class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443777126606_9235">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:

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General">https://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General</a>

If you know what you are doing, and absolutely want to remain at the 6.5
level, go to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vault.centos.org/">http://vault.centos.org/</a> 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.
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        <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443777126606_9132">Best regards.</div>
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        <div>Thomas.<br>
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              <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Den 11:50
                  fredag den 2. oktober 2015 skrev Jon Tegner
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                class="y_msg_container">I think this happens when you do
                a default upgrade. To prevent it I <br clear="none">
                modified the files in /etc/yum.repos to explicitly point
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                Originally they are linked to "6" (or a variable with
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                  > The support matrix states that lustre 2.5.3 is
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                  fresh centos 6.5, it <br clear="none">
                  > turns into centos 6.7. The kernel is still
                  2.6.32, but "sub version" <br clear="none">
                  > changes from -431 to -573.7.1. This makes
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