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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>That’s fine, I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something. We can just plan to reboot after every unmount until we are ready to upgrade.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
-Nathan<BR>
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On 1/22/09 5:58 PM, "Brian J. Murrell" <<a href="Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM">Brian.Murrell@Sun.COM</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:07 -0500, Heald, Nathan T. wrote:<BR>
> I seem to understand that patches are available for Lustre 1.6.7 but I<BR>
> don’t see any specific patches for affected versions below that,<BR>
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We typically only create patches for the "upcoming release(s)". Those<BR>
patches are what makes the "current release" the "next release". The<BR>
amount of work it would take to create a version of every patch for<BR>
every past release is just far far too much.<BR>
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This is one of the reasons we urge people to keep up with our release<BR>
cycle.<BR>
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> I am looking for a patch for 1.6.4.3 on RHEL4, would this fall under<BR>
> the RHEL4 patch? (Comment 34):<BR>
> <a href="https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18018">https://bugzilla.lustre.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18018</a><BR>
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Given that this particular patch is for the kernel itself, it escapes<BR>
the above clause with regard to Lustre verions but falls under a similar<BR>
clause in that we are only going to produce that patch for the<BR>
particular RHEL4 that is released with the "next release". If you want<BR>
that patch for previous RHEL4 kernels you will have to try to port it<BR>
(if it even needs porting -- it might just apply cleanly) yourself,<BR>
maybe with help from people here in the community.<BR>
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b.<BR>
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