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Stephan
Asked: 2011-04-14 07:22:40 +0800 CST

OCFS2 updating procedures

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We plan to use OCFS2 in a project running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 because we found OCFS2 to be much simpler to set up than GFS.

I am, however, worried about the upgrade process since I understand OCFS2 depends on the kernel version number. If I perform yum update on my RHEL host I might receive a newer kernel version. What would be the correct way to keep OCFS2 updated and working?

What is the best practice to have an OCFS2 system that runs a long time and also gets kernel updates?

yum redhat rhel5 ocfs2

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  1. Best Answer

    We have exclude = kernel* in our yum.conf file to avoid this exact problem. I should add that we only kernel update when there is a urgent need to do so and when oracle blesses the kernel

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  2. If I perform yum update on my RHEL host I might receive a newer kernel version

    Are you sure? AFAIK, the whole point of RHEL is not to change anything on the same system release. You just get bugfixes, not upgrades.

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