OCFS2 1.2.9-1 for (RH)EL4 and (RH)EL5 is released.
 
* Fixes bug#6802646
Symptoms for this bug include inability to create a file from some nodes while being able to do so
from others. This problem is typically encountered when the disk free space is low.
 
The reason for the inconsistent behavior is because inodes are allocated from a nodeslot specific
system file, inode_alloc, that is dynamically extended when it runs out of free space. However,
when disk free space is low, the chances that the filesystem is unable to grow this system file
increases.
 
Under this condition, only nodes that have free space in their slot specific inode_alloc are able
to create new files.  The fix, backported from mainline, allows the filesystem to steal inode space
from inode_allocs of nodeslots having some free. This not only makes for a more consistent behavior,
but also allows the filesystem to make use of every byte reserved for inode creation.
 

* Fixes oss bugzilla#919
Symptoms for this bug include [o2net] spinning at 100% just before a node fences due to network
idle timeout. This issue could have previously been misdiagnosed as occurring due to low cluster
timeout setting but instead is because of a bug as described in the bugzilla.
http://oss.oracle.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=919
 

* Plugs memory leaks in o2dlm
These leaks were detected during mainline testing. They went undetected for so long because not
only was the size of the leak small, it reproduced under very specific conditions described in
the patch fixes below.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=2c5c54aca9d0263f81bd4886232835ba31f7635a
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=52987e2ab456c1a828046494aac53819b1454341
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b31cfc0237f89c3a8bc8f31b5da996e71b543214
 

The full list of changes since 1.2.8-2 release is as follows:
 
r3100 fs   Add inode stealing for ocfs2_reserve_new_inode (bug#6802646)
r3099 fs   Remove inode_alloc from handle when inode allocation fails.
r3098 fs   Filter -ENOSPC in mlog_errno()
r3097 dlm  Add dlm_ctxt printing for dlm debugging (cat /proc/fs/ocfs2_dlm//ctxt)
r3096 fs   Allow uid/gid/perm changes of symlinks (oss bugzilla#963)
r3095 fs   Use GFP_NOFS in kmalloc during localalloc window move (oss bugzilla#901)
r3094 net  Get rid of arguments to the timeout routines
r3093 fs   Improve rename locking
r3092 net  Reconnect after idle time out
r3091 net  Fix NULL pointer dereferences in o2net
r3090 dlm  dlm_thread should not sleep while holding the dlm_spinlock (oss bugzilla#919)
r3089 dlm  Print message showing the recovery master
r3088 dlm  Add missing dlm_lockres_put()s 
r3087 dlm  Add missing dlm_lockres_put()s in migration path
r3086 dlm  Add missing dlm_lock_put()s
r3085 dlm  Use dlm_print_one_lock_resource for lock resource print
r3078 dlm  Clear joining_node no matter whether it is in the domain map or not (bug#6719988)