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8.71. glusterfs
Updated glusterfs packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Storage is software-only, scale-out storage that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage for an enterprise. GlusterFS, a key building block of Red Hat Storage, is based on a stackable user-space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads. GlusterFS aggregates various storage servers over network interconnections into one large, parallel network file system.
This update also fixes the following bugs:
Note
The glusterfs packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.6.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1095604)
This update also fixes the following bugs:
Bug Fixes
- BZ#1044797
- When trying to mount a remote gluster share using the "backupvolfile-server" option, the process failed and returned an "Invalid argument" error message. A new mount point option, backup-volfile-servers, has been added to provide backward compatibility and allows remote gluster shares to be mounted successfully.
- BZ#1119205
- Previously, when updating the gluster utility from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 to version 6.6, glusterfs-libs POSTIN scriptlet terminated unexpectedly. The underlying source code has been patched, and POSTIN no longer fails.
The glusterfs packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.6.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1095604)
Users of glusterfs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.
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