OK to update Centos 6 with 5.x kernel?
by midnightoil from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XK39)
We've standardized our product on 32-bit Centos 6, but to support some specific hardware we've updated to a 4.4 elrepo kernel:
Code:# uname -a
Linux 4.4.127-1.el6.elrepo.i686 #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 09:44:43 EDT 2018 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LinuxWe're now planning to update all of the apps to 64-bit but we plan to stay with Centos6 because there'd be too many changes to our automated sysadmin scripts due to systemd etc.
Question: does it make any difference if we update to the latest long term support kernel, eg 4.19.93? For EL6, EL Repo lists only up to 4.4.127 and nothing after that...
Code:# uname -a
Linux 4.4.127-1.el6.elrepo.i686 #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 09:44:43 EDT 2018 i686 i686 i386 GNU/LinuxWe're now planning to update all of the apps to 64-bit but we plan to stay with Centos6 because there'd be too many changes to our automated sysadmin scripts due to systemd etc.
Question: does it make any difference if we update to the latest long term support kernel, eg 4.19.93? For EL6, EL Repo lists only up to 4.4.127 and nothing after that...