Red Hat GFS 6.1 RHEL4 U3 Release Notes Copyright(c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------- March 7, 2006 Introduction The following topics are covered in this document: o Changes to GFS 6.1 o Important Notes o Bugs Fixed in the Release o Related Documentation Changes to GFS 6.1 for RHEL4 U3 Red Hat GFS 6.1 contains no new features for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3. Important Notes Multipath GNBD is not available with this and previous releases of Red Hat GFS 6.1. That is, device mapper multipath (dm-multipath) cannot use GNBD. GNBD without multipath *is* available. This release prevents the activation of snapshots in a clustered volume group. Bugs Fixed in the Release o 183701 -- gfs_fsck segfaults on corrupt extended attribute block o 142849 -- fcntl appends over NFS/GFS: data corruption o 160568 -- aio to gfs filesystem fails with aio-stress and oracle10g tpcc o 164331 -- fatal: filesystem consistency error during umount of GFS o 173913 -- GFS deadlock - gfs_write (do_write_direct) and gfs_setattr (do_truncate) o 178469 -- SPECsfs NFS work load receives RPC errors from single node GFS; works fine with EXT3 For more information about bugs fixed in this release and other information about the release, refer to the following errata on RHN (https://rhn.redhat.com/): o RHBA-2006:0233 -- GFS bug fix update o RHBA-2006:0234 -- GFS-kernel bug fix update o RHBA-2006:0235 -- gnbd-kernel bug fix update Related Documentation The following related documentation is available at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/: o Red Hat GFS 6.1 Administrator's Guide o Release notes for Red Hat GFS 6.1 o Red Hat Cluster Suite Configuring and Managing a Cluster (for Red Hat Cluster Suite 4) o Release notes for Red Hat Cluster Suite 4