RHBA-2019:1785 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rear packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Extended Update Support.

Description

Relax-and-Recover is a recovery and system migration utility. The utility produces a bootable image and restores from backup using this image. It allows to restore to different hardware and can therefore be also used as a migration utility.

This update fixes the following bug:

• In cases of a large number (hundreds or more) of multipath devices, creation of a rescue image previously took a long time (potentially several hours) because scanning of disk devices was repeated many times and collected unnecessary information. With this update, scanning has been improved in the following ways:
• Scanning uses caching to avoid querying the multipath devices multiple times.
• Scanning queries only device-mapper devices for device-mapper specific information.
• Scanning avoids collecting information about FibreChannel devices.

As a result, the creation of the rescue image with hundreds of multipath devices now proceeds faster. (BZ#1680485)

Users of rear are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1680485 - ReaR unable to create the Rescue ISO when having a lot of multipath devices [rhel-7.5.z]

CVEs

(none)

References

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