RHEA-2009:0158 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

cmirror package is now available.

Description

The cmirror package provides user-level utilities for managing cluster
mirroring.

All users requiring cmirror should install this newly released package,
which adds this enhancement.

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 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 - 383291 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: I/O to cmirror causes havoc with mirror resyncing
• BZ - 384811 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to unload the cmirror kernel module using the init script
• BZ - 384871 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: create attempt shouldn't create anything if cmirror service is not started
• BZ - 384901 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to create a --nosync mirror
• BZ - 384931 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to create a core log mirror
• BZ - 384971 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: simple cmirror creation can time out and fail
• BZ - 385001 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to convert a disk log mirror to core log
• BZ - 385231 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: down converting mirrors appears broken
• BZ - 385311 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: problems while creating a 3-way mirror
• BZ - 385541 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to deactivate a mirror
• BZ - 385581 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to resize active mirrors
• BZ - 385651 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to properly delete a mirror
• BZ - 385731 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: up converting linears to mirrors is broken
• BZ - 385761 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unable to reset the copy percentage on a mirror
• BZ - 387601 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: mirror copy percent can become invalid when fully sync'ed
• BZ - 429582 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: failure to get flow control state
• BZ - 429599 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: dm-log-clustered time out while waiting for log server
• BZ - 429608 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: unnecessary leg syncing when converting to disk log
• BZ - 429708 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: cluster locking deadlock
• BZ - 431696 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: any device failure on a 3-way mirror can leave write path deadlocked
• BZ - 432064 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: log device failure can leave mirror write path super slow
• BZ - 432109 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: cpg_mcast_joined error while mirror is suspended
• BZ - 435515 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: Error while processing invalid request
• BZ - 436507 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: failed checkpoint issues can cause volume activation hang
• BZ - 441970 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: filesystem is missing after 'successful' device failure iteration
• BZ - 444171 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: potential memory leak during I/O load
• BZ - 445377 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: resync ops can cause invalid header messages from clogd
• BZ - 445456 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: multiple mirrors can cause copy percent to get stuck
• BZ - 446255 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: data corruption after restoring failed log device on three mirrors
• BZ - 455453 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: small mirror creation fails
• BZ - 456535 - Add cmirror to RHEL 5.3
• BZ - 460156 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: clogd ERROR:: Additional resume issued before suspend
• BZ - 460229 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: RFE - make service cmirror status report something
• BZ - 460317 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: filesystem corruption detected after node recovery
• BZ - 461498 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: log failure on 3-way mirror leads to I/O errors
• BZ - 462732 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: RFE: cmirror init script shouldn't fail to start if it's already started
• BZ - 463772 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: nosync corelog mirror results in invaild copy percent
• BZ - 464550 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: copy percentage can get stuck during sync attempt (creation/conversion)
• BZ - 464934 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: mulitple mirror creation can still lead to a time out failure
• BZ - 467908 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: device failure causes deadlock while attempting to contact cluster log server
• BZ - 468438 - List corruption in cmirror causes machine lock-up or cmirror processing stoppage
• BZ - 468911 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: Invalid "fully synced" copy percent after up conversion from core to disk log
• BZ - 471448 - RHEL5 cmirror tracker: clogd segfault

CVEs

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References

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