[Oraclevm-errata] OVMBA-2016-0107 Oracle VM 3.4 device-mapper-persistent-data bug fix update

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Thu Sep 22 12:36:29 PDT 2016


Oracle VM Bug Fix Advisory OVMBA-2016-0107

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.4 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
device-mapper-persistent-data-0.6.2-0.1.rc7.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.4/SRPMS-updates/device-mapper-persistent-data-0.6.2-0.1.rc7.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:


[0.6.2-0.1.rc7]
- Fixes for thin_repair.
- Add new fields to thin_ls: MAPPED_BYTES, EXCLUSIVE_BYTES and SHARED_BYTES.

[0.6.2-0.1.rc5]
- Fix bugs in thin_delta.
- Fix recent regression in thin_repair.
- Force g++-98 dialect.

[0.6.2-0.1.rc1]
- Fix bug in thin_dump when using metadata snaps.

[0.6.1-1]
- Install pdata_tools and all its symlinks for various tools to
   /sbin and also provide symlinks for all tools in /usr/sbin
   for backward compatibility.
- Link with libstdc++ statically.

[0.6.0-2]
- Add proper cmath header file to sources.

[0.6.0-1]
- New thin_ls command.

[0.5.6-1]
- era_invalidate may be run on live metadata if the --metadata-snap
   option is given.
- Update man pages to make it clearer that most tools shouldnt
   be run on live metadata.
- Fixed bugs in the metadata reference counting for thin_check.
- New thin_delta and thin_trim commands.
- New --clear-needs-check option for cache_check.
- Space map checking for thin check.
- All tools switch to using libaio. This gives a large performance
   boost, especially to the write focused tools like thin_restore.
- Added progress monitor to thin_restore, cache_restore and era_restore.
- Added --quiet/-q option to *_restore to turn off the progress bar.
- Removed variable hint size support from cache tools.
- Tools are now rolled into a single executable to save space.
- Fixed bugs when walking bitsets (possibly effecting cache_dump
   and cache_check).



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