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! -- rgds Stephen