Marcus Furlong wrote:
On 29 July 2015 at 11:41, Peter Ross <petrosssit@gmail.com> wrote:
Using a newer kernel is out of question here - I have to use the latest "Enterprise Linux" (CentOS 7) without patches.
Does that include using kernels from other CentOS repos?
The elrepo repository listed above has a mainline kernel that follows upstream stable releases, so no need for patching.
I wonder how safe it is to use these kernels, and whether it breaks the userland.
From the policy view, it somehow defeats the purpose of choosing an Enterprise Linux (with well-tested software in their own "kernel/userland universe") and then throwing out crucial parts of it.
I could put a FreeBSD kernel underneath then, it has a Linux kernel ABI, and start deploying CentOS jails on ZFS;-) https://wiki.freebsd.org/VIMAGE/Linux/CentOS55 I don't think I get away with this either;-) Thanks Peter On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Marcus Furlong <furlongm@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 July 2015 at 11:41, Peter Ross <petrosssit@gmail.com> wrote:
Using a newer kernel is out of question here - I have to use the latest "Enterprise Linux" (CentOS 7) without patches.
Does that include using kernels from other CentOS repos?
http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories
The elrepo repository listed above has a mainline kernel that follows upstream stable releases, so no need for patching.
In case anyone is interested, openSUSE also has the same type of stable kernel repo here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
and the Ubuntu has it's mainline kernel ppa:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
Regards, Marcus. -- Marcus Furlong