On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 at 9:43am, Robert G. Brown wrote
The one other issue that can come up is hardware related -- obviously if Centos installs on your hardware it installs and you're done. IF however you add new nodes every year, and those nodes have different motherboards or network devices or etc, it is possible that you'll hit a motherboard that just doesn't work with the older kernel being maintained in Centos.
Keep in mind, though, that RH backports new hardware support into that "older" kernel. The 2.6.9 in RHEL/CentOS 4.6 these days supports far more hardware than stock 2.6.9, e.g..
-- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
