RHBA-2008:0081 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated device-mapper packages that include various bug fixes and
enhancements are now available.

Description

The device-mapper packages provide a library required by logical volume
management utilities such as LVM2 and dmraid.

This update provides the following bug fixes and enhancements:

• Adds readahead support to libdevmapper and dmsetup.
• Allows a DM_DEV_DIR environment variable to override /dev in dmsetup.
• Splits event daemon subpackage to fix package dependences in multilib

installations.

• Fixes dmsetup -o devno string termination.
• Fixes a double memory deallocation in event error path.
• Fixes some error messages to always use standard error output.

All users of device-mapper should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues and include these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 240005 - lvconvert does not work in enforcing mode
• BZ - 369761 - device-mapper multilib problem on ppc (breaks lvm mirrors)
• BZ - 423391 - dm stripe device has a worse reading speed - readahead is not optimal

CVEs

(none)

References

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