RHBA-2012:0276 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated gfs-utils package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The gfs-utils package provides various user-space tools necessary to mount,
create, maintain, and test Global File Systems (GFS).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, metawalk.c did not correctly consider leaf continuation

blocks. As a result, the offline GFS file system checker (gfs_fsck) did not
correctly check file systems with 500,000 or more files. This update modifies
the fsck.gfs code so that gfs_fsck now also works on larger file systems.
(BZ#704328)

• Prior to this update, the gfs_mount(8) manual page did not list the recently

added the GFS mount options "-o noprefetch", "prefetch", "errors=panic", and
"errors=withdraw". This update adds these GFS mount options. (BZ#766646)

All users of gfs-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes this bug.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 704328 - fsck.gfs can not check file system with 500,000 files

CVEs

(none)

References

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