From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: latest version of mdadm for RedHat 5.3 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:07:59 +1000 Message-ID: <20110812070759.2849ba0b@notabene.brown> References: <4E43FAA8.5050509@Oracle.com> <4E43FC96.6020308@Oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E43FC96.6020308@Oracle.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Papa Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:00:22 -0700 John Papa wrote: > On 8/11/2011 8:52 AM, John Papa wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > A customer is running RedHat 5.3 and has inquired regarding > > the latest version of mdadm for that version of RedHat. > > > > I am having some difficulty responding to the customer with > > the degree of confidence required for this production environment. > > > > Is mdadm version 3.2.2 compatible with RedHat version 5.3? > > > > Thank you in advance for considering this inquiry In theory all later versions of mdadm are compatible with all kernels. Later versions add features, remove bugs, and sometimes add bugs. The real question is probably "Has it been tested" or "is someone willing to provide support". Maybe you should ask Redhat?? NeilBrown > > John.Papa@Oracle.com > Oracle National Security Group > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html