Recommended update for NFS

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for NFS
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2012:0704-1
Rating: low
References: #752537
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4

  • An update that has one recommended fix can now be installed.

    Description:


    This update adds locking to avoid a race which could have
    caused high-available NFS exports to become unavailable
    when multiple cluster services failed over at the same
    time due to changes made to exportfs done by multiple
    processes in parallel overwriting each other.

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64):
    • nfs-utils-1.0.7-36.46.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP4 (i586 x86_64):
    • nfs-utils-1.0.7-36.46.1

    References:

  • https://bugzilla.novell.com/752537
  • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=09c619267263f50ae8f8d646df41dcf5