Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0276 - gfs-utils bug fix update

Synopsis

gfs-utils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated gfs-utils package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The gfs-utils package provides various user-space tools necessary to mount, create, maintain, and test Global File Systems (GFS).

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, metawalk.c did not correctly consider leaf continuation blocks. As a result, the offline GFS file system checker (gfs_fsck) did not correctly check file systems with 500,000 or more files. This update modifies the fsck.gfs code so that gfs_fsck now also works on larger file systems. (BZ#704328)

• Prior to this update, the gfs_mount(8) manual page did not list the recently added the GFS mount options "-o noprefetch", "prefetch", "errors=panic", and "errors=withdraw". This update adds these GFS mount options. (BZ#766646)

All users of gfs-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gfs-utils-0.1.20-13.el5.ppc.rpm
• gfs-utils-0.1.20-13.el5.src.rpm
• gfs-utils-0.1.20-13.el5.i386.rpm
• gfs-utils-0.1.20-13.el5.ia64.rpm
• gfs-utils-0.1.20-13.el5.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 704328

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.