RHEA-2009:1383 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Newly released ctdb packages are now available.

Description

CTDB is a clustered database based on Samba's Trivial Database (TDB). The
ctdb package is a cluster implementation used to store temporary data. If
an application is already using TBD for temporary data storage, it can be
very easily converted to be cluster-aware and use CTDB. (BZ#499241)

Note that CTDB is included as a Technology Preview. Technology Preview
features are included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide the features
with wide exposure, with the goal of supporting these features in a future
release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Technology Preview features are not
supported under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 subscription services, and
may not be functionally complete. Red Hat welcomes customer feedback and
suggestions for Technology Previews. Advisories will be provided for
high-severity security issues in Technology Preview features.

All users requiring CTDB should install these newly released packages,
which add 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/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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