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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 7.x => Topic started by: stian on March 01, 2007, 01:47:21 PM

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: stian on March 01, 2007, 01:47:21 PM

"Linux Rleases Areca SATA ll RAID Controller Driver in its Kernel Tree 2.6.19"

http://www.areca.com.tw/news/n100506.htm

Will this also come in Smeserver then? :-)

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: marsa_matruh on March 02, 2007, 10:43:35 AM

No, not now. SME 7.0 and 7.1 use RHEL 4 (RedHadEnterpriseLinux, used through CentOS 4), which use 2.6.9 kernel. Even RHEL 5, at beta stage now, may use 2.6.18 kernel so integration of RHEL/CentOs 5 in SME will not be enough.

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: stian on March 02, 2007, 11:23:01 AM

Ok. Thanks. It`s not a big problem, but I just have to do som ekstra steps before updating when there`s a new kernel. Will the kernel always change as often as now in the future?

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: marsa_matruh on March 02, 2007, 11:39:59 AM

Quote from: "stian"

Will the kernel always change as often as now in the future?

It depends on RedHat. But I'm afraid yes.

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: stian on March 02, 2007, 11:55:13 AM

If I exclude kernel updates. Will that make my system unreliable?

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: marsa_matruh on March 02, 2007, 02:12:19 PM

Hard to say. The best way is to check for each new kernel what the modifications are and if they are critical when using SME. Example: a bug allows privilege escalation for simple user using command line. No command line for users in SME => no problem. From a practical point of view, it is not possible to do such check at each kernel update. So if you do not update your kernel each time, your system may be reliable and you may hope that there is now security break.

Ahma, kernel for SME 6.0 was not updated during all the life of 6.0 despite update from upstream. And I did not heard about SME 6.0 compromising for this.

Title: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: mrjhb3 on March 02, 2007, 02:30:57 PM

Kernel updates will be excluded when you get 7.1.1 installed.  After that, all kernel updates will be done through smeupdates.

John

Title: Re: Kernel Tree 2.6.19
Post by: slords on March 02, 2007, 07:50:27 PM

Quote from: "stian"

"Linux Rleases Areca SATA ll RAID Controller Driver in its Kernel Tree 2.6.19"

http://www.areca.com.tw/news/n100506.htm

Will this also come in Smeserver then? :-)

check out the smedev repo.  I've built kmods for arcmsr (the driver for Areca cards).  You will need to install the modules for the kernel you have installed and then regenerate the initrd files.