This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. There was a kernel release over the weekend to .67.0.15, yet, they did not release the updated GFS to go along with it, so when the machine rebooted, there was no gfs file system in the new running kernel which in turn wreaked havoc on my cluster. I truly wish they would not do that :). I guess I shall have to not allow automatic yum updates from these machines.
Well, I should add a terrible story for XFS... I did a "yum update" and after updating many packages I rebooted and viola... Old xfs module ruined my 1.2TB partition. After updating to correct module and hours of xfs_repair I had to move and rename 500 subfolders from lost+found. I am using CentOS because I have to (for cPanel). I am not very comfortable with it (indeed I am a pro gentooer for 5-7 years) On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Doug Tucker <tuckerd at engr.smu.edu> wrote:> This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. There was a kernel > release over the weekend to .67.0.15, yet, they did not release the > updated GFS to go along with it, so when the machine rebooted, there was > no gfs file system in the new running kernel which in turn wreaked havoc > on my cluster. I truly wish they would not do that :). I guess I shall > have to not allow automatic yum updates from these machines. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
> This is the 2nd time this has happened to me. There was a kernel > release over the weekend to .67.0.15, yet, they did not release the > updated GFS to go along with it, so when the machine > rebooted, there was > no gfs file system in the new running kernel which in turn > wreaked havoc > on my cluster. I truly wish they would not do that :). I > guess I shall > have to not allow automatic yum updates from these machines.Use the yum's exclude functionality. Man yum.conf for the syntax. I think it will just be exclude=kernel. You also might want to remove the non gfs kernels from your installation and get a staging environment for patching set up (if this is a production system). Best Patrick