So XFS is no longer a luxary item and will be used as the default filesystem. I think this is welcomed by many of us. Will Redhat be able to bring us surprises? I seriously doubt that as Redhat has never been on the frontier. But I do expect a rock-solid distribution. See about Redhat’s press release: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/press-archive/2014/6/red-hat-unveils-rhel-7
There are times when updating to the latest minor release is not preferred, maybe a software compatibility issue or just plain stupidity. On RHEL 6.1 and beyond, one can utilzie the releasever parameter to lock the update to specific one. For example: yum –releasever=6.2 update But what about RHEL5.x? Redhat suggested mounting the corresponding ISO and set it up as a local repository. Lots of work especially when it’s required…