RHEA-2017:0490 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated nfs-ganesha packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

NFS-Ganesha is a user space file server for the NFS protocol
with support for NFSv3, v4, v4.1, pNFS.

Red Hat Gluster Storage is supported with the community’s V2.4.1 stable release of NFS-Ganesha.

This rebase includes the following enhancements:

• cache_inode replaced with stackable FSAL_MDCACHE.
• support_ex FSAL API extensions to allow associating file descriptors or other FSAL specific information with state_t objects.
• abort() on ENOMEM rather than attempt to continue.
• Proper handling of NFS v3 (NLM) blocked locks.
• netgroup cache.
• Cache open owners.
• Various bug fixes, memory leaks and refcount issue resolution.

It also includes several bug fixes.The most significant one of which is:

• Previously, old RPMs included a -doc subpackage which was not included in the new RPMs. This -doc subpackage was not removed during an update. With this fix, the -doc subpackage is erased by an update.

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 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1371384 - Rebase of nfs-ganesha for RHGS 3.2 on RHEL-6
• BZ - 1371385 - Rebase of libntirpc for nfs-ganesha in RHGS 3.2 on RHEL-6
• BZ - 1372691 - nfs-ganesha: Obsolete docs subpackage (left over from 2.1.x)
• BZ - 1380695 - [SELinux]: Cases in pynfs test suite fails because of selinux errors on RHEL 6 based RHGS.
• BZ - 1389470 - rebase nfs-ganesha and libntirpc for RHEL6

CVEs

(none)

References

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