Hi out there. Since CentOS 8 support ends end of this year (in favour of CentOS Stream 8), it's time to make decisions where to move.
There are two forks of CentOS, Alma and Rocky Linux, but nobody knows whether they will survive the next years. Then there is Oracle Linux, but there is always some threat that Oracle will turn it into a paid product any time. With CentOS Stream we probably will see more often new kernels that are not supported by the actual Spectrum Scale version, as we have already seen it from time to time with RHEL/CentOS. So this means more testing and manual work with pinning kernel versions on our clusters. We just successfully passed an evaluation of Oracle Linux and decided to move there with several products running on CentOS. Only restraint with Spectrum Scale was, that we had to fake the /etc/os-release when configuring object service, since the mmobj command has some specific code distinguishing between RHEL and CentOS and fails with other release identifiers. I would like to hear from other CentOS users here: Where are you moving to? What are your reasons? @IBM: What will happen to release specific code in Spectrum Scale, at present differing between CentOS and RHEL? Will there be support for Alma/Rocky/Oracle Linux? Do we have to raise RFEs for this? Thank you very much, Christian On 09.12.20 Carl Zetie wrote: > Hi all, > > With the announcement of Centos 8 moving to stream > https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ > > Will Centos still be considered a clone OS? > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY/gpfsclustersfaq.html#linuxclone > > What does this mean for the future for support for folk that are running > Centos? > > Cheers, > > Carl. > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss -- Christian Vieser Senior Systemadministrator AIX & Storage Portal Infrastructure - Storage Services 1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH | Brauerstraße 50 | 76135 Karlsruhe | Germany Amtsgericht Montabaur, HRB 5452 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Ludwig, Jan Oetjen, Sandra Vollmer Member of United Internet _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
