[Ocfs2-announce] OCFS2 1.2.8-2 for RHEL4 and RHEL5 released

[Sunil Mushran]

All,

We are pleased to announce the release of OCFS2 1.2.8-2 for RHEL4 and
RHEL5 on x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures.

Some of the changes in this release are as follows:

* Fix for bug#6680001. This concerns a possible dlm freeze after a node
death recovery. This bug is only in 1.2.7-1 and not in the earlier releases.
We regret this error. 1.2.7-1 users should plan to upgrade to 1.2.8-2 as
soon as possible.

* Fix for bug#6531210. This concerns a very tight race between rename
and unlink that results in an oops.

* Performance fix. Jan Kara of Novell provided this fix that leads to
lower cpu usage during allocations. We thank him for his contribution.

For more, please refer to the news.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/news/article_17.html

For instructions on upgrading, please refer to the FAQ.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html#UPGRADE

Note: Users looking to upgrade to 1.2.8-2 from 1.2.5 or earlier releases
should also upgrade the tools to OCFS2 Tools 1.2.7-1.
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools

All patch fixes in this release have been provided to Novell and should be
available soon for download with SLES10 SP1 and SLES9 SP4 kernels.

Red Hat users can download packages for this release for 13 RHEL4 kernels,
from U4 (2.6.9-42.EL) to U6 (2.6.9-67.0.4.EL), and 12 RHEL5 kernels, from
2.6.18-8.el5 to 2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 at the following link:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/RedHat/

As always, we look forward to hearing from you on the 
ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
mailing list.

The OCFS2 Team

OCFS2: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2
TOOLS: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools
FAQ:   
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_faq.html
GUIDE: 
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/dist/documentation/ocfs2_users_guide.pdf