How to recover data from RAID1

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Re: How to recover data from RAID1

Post by TrevorH » 2021/09/17 08:19:33

Don't see any maintenance cost.
Then you're not looking hard enough or perhaps not in the right place. RH maintain their own branch of the kernel for each version of RHEL. They have to do all the maintenance on all of the code in that kernel, pulling in all required changes from the mainline linux kernel as they are made if they are required for security or hardware support. Those changes are often to a kernel that is far removed from the one in use on RHEL - for example, RHEL 7 uses a 3.10.0 kernel and many things in the latest mainline kernel (5.15?) are completely different due to rewrites of other parts of the code. While all that is going on, they also have to field bug reports from their customers for things that are only in their version of the kernel. All of that needs people and people need paying. Now factor in that each RHEL version is supported for 10 years and you are looking at supporting drivers for hardware that went EOL say 10 years ago for another 10 years. By the time RHEL 8 goes EOL in 2029, that hardware will be 20 years old.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
Use the FAQ Luke

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