Recommended update for drbd-utils

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:2631-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for drbd-utils contains the following fixes:

  • Fix the wrong return code with cib_apply_diff. (bsc#1145296)

  • Update to new upstream release 9.6.0. (bsc#1115606)

  • usage-count: also count notty users if possible.
  • drbd-overview: remove it, we have drbdtop/drbdmon. saves all the Perl deps.
  • drbdmon: update frequency limiting, debug log for drbdevents, use altbuffer,...
  • drbdsetup show: on 9 allow json output. mainly used in our CI, don't expect a stable field names yet.
  • drbdsetup status: on 9 fix json output to not include NaN/Infinity
  • allow higher resync rates: first customers hit a limit. this requires an updated kernel module as well (e.g., 9.0.16)
  • init: fix some 8-only leftovers (sh-b-pri), sanitize the retry logic
  • doc: document various 9 features that got forgotten (e.g., quorum-lost)
  • build: various small fixes that popped up while playing with meson

  • Update to 9.5.0

  • drbdmon: allow to start in problems view (--problems)
  • drbdadm,v9: fix always failing stacked handlers from kernel
  • drbdadm,v9: adjust now hands over the information that a diskfull->diskless change was intentional.
  • drbdadm,v9: adjust verifies now IPs

  • Update to 9.4.0

  • drbdmeta: don't exit with negative return codes
  • usage counts: only register if we know driver version
  • drbdsetup,v9: expose detailed verify/resync statistics
  • drbdsetup,v9,json: saner types for client/peer-client/quorum on --json
  • drbdsetup,v9: expose client/peer-client in status if !isatty()
  • Including fix for SLE12SP3:
  • Remove hardcoded local5 of logfacility. (bsc#1064402)
  • drbdmeta does not propagate full bitmap. (bsc#1037109)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-2019-2631=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • drbd-utils-debugsource-9.6.0-3.6.1
    • drbd-utils-9.6.0-3.6.1
    • drbd-utils-debuginfo-9.6.0-3.6.1

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