I'm rebuilding now the 3.16.6 version from fedora for el6 (I had to make some small modification: remove perl-carp dependency and some compiler flag). And it's for el6, so we have only elrepo with a newer kernel.
Is it safe to install the kernel without recompiling it first for the new platform? On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Julio E. Gonzalez P. <j...@netvision.com.py> wrote: > When you say "el6" you mean "el7" right? The last kernel for el7 is > 3.10.xxxxx > But Redhat lie a little with kernel version numbers. They say you have a > 3.10 kernel, but I think they backport a lot from newers kernels. > Probably the btrfs of redhat el7 is not really a btrfs from 3.10, maybe is > btrfs from 3.12 or 3.14....how knows... (I want to know better about this > too...also using btfrs in rhel7) > > > > > On 10/21/2014 12:34 PM, Cristian Falcas wrote: >> >> I will start investigating how can we build our own rpms from the 3.16 >> sources. Until then we are stuck with the ones from the official repos >> or elrepo. Which means 3.10 is the latest for el6. We used this until >> now and seems we where lucky enough to not hit anything bad. >> >> We upgraded to 3.17 because we use ceph on the machine with openstack >> and on the ceph site they recommended >3.14. And because we need >> writable snapshots, we are forced to use btrfs under ceph. >> >> Thank you all for your advice. >> >> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
