On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:25:55AM -0600, Seth Bardash wrote:
Officially, Red Hat does not support rebuilds of its kernel with configurations other than the one Red Hat ships.
In other news; water is wet, flames are hot, night follows day.
But back to our lead story where RedHat only supports their approved configurations
This answer brings to light some very serious limitations. First, if you want to turn on a standard kernel feature and its broken (like what I tried), it is not officially supported by Red Hat nor Centos.
Therefore, xfs, ntfs, and many other features quite a few of us use may be broken at any time when the upstream provider "fixes or updates" a kernel.
An analyst responds: "Well, duh! If you change configurations from the vendor approved values and things break then you get to keep the pieces. The vendor disabled these for a reason; eg unsupportable, unreliable, not enterprise level stable..."
And that's all from us at News Of The Obvious. Good night!