RHBA-2019:3250 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated gdeploy package that fixes a bug and adds an enhancement is now available.

Description

gdeploy is a tool which automates the process of creating, formatting,
and mounting bricks. When setting up a fresh cluster, gdeploy could be
the preferred choice of cluster set up, as manually executing numerous
commands can be error-prone. The advantages of using gdeploy include
automated brick creation, flexibility in choosing the drives to
configure (sd, vd,etc.), and flexibility in naming the logical
volumes (LV) and volume groups (VG).

This update addresses the following bug:

• Previously, when samba was configured using gdeploy, the samba user

was not created on all nodes in a cluster. This caused problems during
failover of CTDB, as the required user did not exist. Gdeploy now creates
the samba user on all nodes, avoiding this issue. (BZ#1712904)

• The configuration options 'group=samba' and 'user.cifs=enable' are

now set on the volume during Samba setup, ensuring setup is successful.
(BZ#1759810)

This update also provides the following enhancement:

• Configuring geo-replication was a lengthy and error prone process.

Support for geo-replication is now provided by gdeploy, automating
and reducing error in this process. (BZ#1475724)

All users of gdeploy are advised to upgrade to this updated package
which fixes this bug and adds this enhancement.

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 Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1475724 - [RFE] Add geo-replication support in gdeploy
• BZ - 1707704 - [geo-rep+gdeploy]: Creation of a session is not the recommended way
• BZ - 1759810 - [samba-gdeploy] "group samba" volume option needs to be implemented as a part of samba setup via "smb=yes"

CVEs

(none)

References

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