On Wed, 2022-09-14 at 17:18 +0000, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Just while we’re talking about this, if I can offer a slight tangent, > I’d appreciate it if IBM made sure to support the final point release > of a RedHat major version, regardless of whether it has EUS status or > not (I can’t speak to why it wouldn’t, or if that’s an unusual case). > I don’t remember the specifics surrounding what happened with RHEL > 7.8 and 7.9 at this point with Spectrum Scale 4.2.3.x (and it was > also an unusual situation where DDN equipment got dead-ended, making > moving to a later version much more complicated than it ordinarily > would be), but I remember that I was stuck in a position of choosing > between security patches or Spectrum Scale support. It’s > understandable if the OS itself is no longer supported that we’d need > to purchase EUS, but that wasn’t the case with RHEL 7.9.
I have no insight into the specific situation with 4.2.3 and DDN. Looking at the current Spectrum Scale support: Both supported release streams, 5.1.5 and 5.1.2 do support RHEL 7.9. Christof _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org
