Red Hat Cluster Suite 3 RHEL3 U8 Release Notes


Copyright(c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc.
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September 19, 2006

Introduction

   The following topics are covered in this document:
   
     o Changes to Red Hat Cluster Suite 3
     
     o Bugs Fixed in the Release

     o Related Documentation
     
   
Changes to Red Hat Cluster Suite 3

   The following features are new for this release:

   o Allows quorum heartbeats to take priority over the network
     heartbeat. This feature allows a cluster to fall back on the
     quorum heartbeat method if the network fails. Added in Bugzilla
     179363.

   o Adds the ability for clumanager to relocate dead services without
     restarting locally. Added in Bugzilla 180969.


Bugs Fixed in the Release

   o 179357 -- 768370 - Problem enabling quota's on cluster
   o 179363 -- Feature: Allow quorum heartbeats
     to take priority over Network heartbeat 
   o 180969 -- RFE: Add the ability for clumanager to relocate
     dead services without restarting locally 
   o 188023 -- active NFS POSIX locks prevent umount from
     occurring during failover
   o 196047 -- split brain on shutdown causes file system corruption.
   o 195461 -- [RHEL 3 CS BUG U8?] LVS monitor script hangs


  For more information about bugs fixed in this release and other information 
  about the release, refer to the following errata on RHN
  (https://rhn.redhat.com/):
  
    o RHBA-2006:0505 - clumanager bug fix update
    o RHBA-2006:0565 - piranha bug fix update


Related Documentation
   
   The following related documentation is available at 
   http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/:
   
   o Red Hat Cluster Suite Configuring and Managing a Cluster
     (for Red Hat Cluster Suite 3)
   
   o Release notes for Red Hat Cluster Suite 3

   o Red Hat GFS 6.0 Administrator's Guide
   
   o Release notes for Red Hat GFS 6.0