Issued:
2019-10-30
Updated:
2019-10-30

RHEA-2019:3249 - glusterfs bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

glusterfs bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

Updated glusterfs packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

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.

The glusterfs packages have been rebased to upstream version 6. (BZ#1699719)

This advisory fixes the following bugs:

  • O_TRUNC is ignored during open-fd heal to prevent invalid locks.(BZ#1706549)
  • Reading from bad blocks is now prevented. (BZ#1732774)
  • File descriptors are marked as bad when updates to file size or version fails. (BZ#1745107)
  • Stale linkto files are identified and deleted. (BZ#1672869)
  • Network family sets correctly during socket initialization so events are sent to consumers. (BZ#1732443)
  • Dynamically allocated memory is freed correctly. (BZ#1734423, BZ#1736830)
  • Non-root geo-replication sessions can now use gluster commands by setting gluster-command-dir and gluster-command-slave-dir options. (BZ#1712591)
  • New auto-invalidation and performance.global-cache-invalidation options retain page cache content to improve performance. (BZ#1676468)
  • Geo-replication now succeeds when a symbolic link is renamed multiple times between syncs. (BZ#1670429)
  • During geo-replication, workers now read stderr output while tarssh runs, avoiding deadlocks. (BZ#1708116)
  • Geo-replication no longer creates extra files when many different files are renamed to the same destination path. (BZ#1708121)
  • Fixed memory leak when viewing status of all volumes. (BZ#1670415, BZ#1686255)
  • Rebalance socket files are now named using a hash based on volume name and UUID to avoid character limits and ensure rebalance occurs. (BZ#1720192)
  • Get-status now reports state more accurately. (BZ#1726991)
  • Optimized retrieving volume information to prevent handshake timeouts when 1500+ volumes are configured in a cluster. (BZ#1652461)
  • Access Control List settings are correctly removed from volumes. (BZ#1685246)
  • When eager-lock lock acquisition failed during a write transaction, the previous lock was retained, which blocked all subsequent writes and caused a hang. This is now handled correctly and more specific log messages have been added to assist in diagnosing related issues. (BZ#1688395)
  • The cluster.quorum-count volume option no longer receives a combination of new and stale data in some situations, and Gluster NFS clients now honor cluster.quorum-count when cluster.quorum-type is set to fixed. (BZ#1642425)
  • Shard deletion is now a batched background process to control .shard directory contention. Batch size is 100 by default and can be set using features.shard-deletion-rate. (BZ#1568758)

This advisory also provides the following enhancements:

  • Gluster-based time attributes are now available to avoid consistency issues with kernel-based time attributes. (BZ#1583225, BZ#1699709, BZ#1298724, BZ#1314508)
  • The storage.fips-mode-rchecksum volume option is now enabled by default for new volumes on clusters with an op-version of 70000 or higher. (BZ#1706683)
  • The default maximum port number for bricks is now 60999 instead of 65535. (BZ#1658448)
  • Override umask by using the following new options: storage.create-mask, storage.create-directory-mask, storage.force-create-mode, and storage.force-create-directory. (BZ#1539679)
  • A Certificate Revocation List (CRL) can now be set using the ssl.crl-path volume option. (BZ#1583585)
  • Bricks in different subvolumes can now be different sizes, and gluster algorithms account for this when determining placement ranges for files. (BZ#1290124)
  • Users can set a different gluster statedump path for client gfapi processes that cannot write to /var/run/gluster. (BZ#1720461)
  • Improved performance when syncing renames. (BZ#1726000)
  • The storage.reserve option now reserves based on size or percentage. (BZ#1573077)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages to receive these fixes and enhancements.

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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise3x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • glusterfs-api-devel-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • python2-gluster-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-storage-logos-70.7.0-3.el7rhgs.src.rpm
  • glusterfs-server-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-debuginfo-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-rdma-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-6.0-21.el7rhgs.src.rpm
  • glusterfs-rdma-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-fuse-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-fuse-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-cli-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-devel-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-events-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-libs-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-client-xlators-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-storage-logos-70.7.0-3.el7rhgs.noarch.rpm
  • glusterfs-6.0-21.el7.src.rpm
  • glusterfs-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-geo-replication-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-ganesha-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-server-7.7-16.el7rhgs.src.rpm
  • python2-gluster-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-resource-agents-6.0-21.el7rhgs.noarch.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-devel-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-release-server-7.7-16.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-cli-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-debuginfo-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-storage-server-3.5.0.0-1.el7rhgs.src.rpm
  • glusterfs-libs-6.0-21.el7rhgs.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • redhat-storage-server-3.5.0.0-1.el7rhgs.noarch.rpm
  • glusterfs-client-xlators-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-devel-6.0-21.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

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Additional information