Hi Per, On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:37:37PM +0100, Per Lundqvist wrote:
> Hi Jody, I notice that the rhel kernels are quite old: 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL is > from rhel4 update 5 and 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 is from rhel5, before update 1. > The latest snapshots are rhel4 update 6 (2.6.9-67.0.1.EL) and rhel5 update > 1 (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5) respectively. > > What is the reason for staying so far behind the latest kernels? (We have > a problem with a bug in the e1000 driver on both the older kernels - but > there are also a couple of security fixes in the newer kernels that should > be of interest to everybody) Indeed. 1.6.4.2 was a bugfixes-only release with minimal changes from 1.6.4.1. The kernel updates are in the tree for 1.6.5, along with many other less critical bug fixes. We could do a 1.6.4.3 release with just the kernel updates, but we have not received any requests for this from paying customers and we have lots of other things to work on. Cheers, Jody > thanks, > /Per > > -- > Per Lundqvist > > National Supercomputer Centre > Link?ping University, Sweden > > http://www.nsc.liu.se -- _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
