Issued:: 2020-01-30
Updated:: 2020-01-30

RHBA-2020:0288 - glusterfs bug fix update

Synopsis

glusterfs bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory None

Topic

Updated glusterfs packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.5 Batch 1 Update on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Red Hat Gluster Storage is software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.

This advisory fixes the following bugs:

Special handling is sometimes required to ensure I/O on clients with older versions works correctly during an in-service upgrade. Servers with dispersed volumes do not do this handling for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1 clients when upgrading to version 3.5. With this update, if you are using dispersed volumes and have clients on Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1, perform an offline upgrade when moving server and client to version 3.5. (BZ#1766640)
With this update removal of bricks will be aborted with a proper warning message if re-balance process has failed or there are some skipped files. However, users can still remove the brick by using the 'force' option. (BZ#1344758)
Previously, after rebalance was completed, if the glusterd was rebooted gluster volume rebalance status was displaying the wrong size. Now, rebalance status displays the size correctly. (BZ#1761486)
Performance translators, 'io-cache' and 'read-ahead' were not adding any performance improvement. The 'read-ahead' is redundant due to kernel 'read-ahead' and 'io-cache' was degrading the performance for workloads that don’t involve re-read. As the VFS layer already has both these functionalities, the two translators have been turned off by default for native fuse mounts. Due to this, there is improved performance for the sequential read. (BZ#1788656)
The 'gluster volume heal info' always does a DNS name resolution. When DNS address resolution takes 30 seconds to fail, the command fails as it crosses the time out value set for gluster AFR volumes. With this fix, 'gluster volume heal info' command does not resolve the erroneous address and it works correctly even when DNS-server configuration has issues. (BZ#1758923)

All users of glusterfs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provides numerous bug fixes.

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

Product	Version	Arch
Red Hat Virtualization	4	x86_64
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise	3	x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server	7	x86_64

Updated Packages

glusterfs-6.0-29.el7.src.rpm
glusterfs-libs-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-ganesha-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-client-xlators-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-fuse-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-cli-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-api-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-rdma-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
python2-gluster-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
python2-gluster-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-cloudsync-plugins-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-devel-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-server-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-debuginfo-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-devel-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-resource-agents-6.0-29.el7rhgs.noarch.rpm
glusterfs-fuse-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-libs-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-cli-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-api-devel-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-events-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-api-devel-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-api-6.0-29.el7.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-6.0-29.el7rhgs.src.rpm
glusterfs-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-debuginfo-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-geo-replication-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-rdma-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
glusterfs-client-xlators-6.0-29.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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