On Tuesday 13 May 2008 04:20:46 Doug Tucker wrote:
Tru,
I work at a university. They don't provide enough money for test environments :). Just kinda odd, last time kernel update, gfs updated at the same time so all was well. But twice now kernel has upgraded with no GFS so it went bye-bye. Is the GFS being installed, compiled against particular kernel headers, or could I just copy the /fs/gfs and /fs/gfs_locking to the new kernel /lib/modules (or symlink for that matter) and be lucky enough it would work?
From my experience, if the production server is running OK, and the update is not security-related, then there is NO NEED to update in your situation. If you DO want to update for whatever reason, test it first in a testbed.
Trust me. It comes from a traumatic experience :)