RHEA-2013:1696 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated device-mapper-persistent-data packages that add various enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The device-mapper-persistent-data packages provide device-mapper thin
provisioning (thinp) tools.

This enhancement update adds important thin provisioning tools (repair, rmap,
and metadata_size) as well as caching tools (check, dump, restore, and repair)
to the device-mapper-persistent-data packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as a
Technology Preview. (BZ#814790, BZ#960284, BZ#1006059, BZ#1019217)

More information about Red Hat Technology Previews is available here:
https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/

Users of device-mapper-persistent-data are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which add these enhancements.

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 960284 - thin_dump and other persistent-data tools may perform IO to misaligned buffers
• BZ - 1006059 - thin_check hangs if given a non existent dump file to restore from
• BZ - 1019217 - Thin_check doesn't return error exit code for broken metadata

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/support/offerings/techpreview/