[Linux-cluster] gfs2-utils 3.1.5 Released

[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

On 11/12/2012 9:37 PM, Andrew Price wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> gfs2-utils 3.1.5 has been released. This version features bug fixes and
> performance enhancements for fsck.gfs2 in particular, better handling of
> symlinks in mkfs.gfs2, a small block manipulation language to aid future
> testing, a gfs2_lockcapture script which replaces gfs2_lockgather, and
> various other minor enhancements and bug fixes.
> 
> The mount.gfs2 helper utility has been removed as it is no longer
> required to mount gfs2 file systems. gfs2_tool and gfs2_quota have also
> been removed. Users of gfs2_quota should now use the generic quota
> utilities and users of gfs2_tool should now use tunegfs2, gfs2 mount
> options and the generic dmsetup and chattr/lsattr tools.

IIRC there is a specific minimum kernel version for mount.gfs2 to be
obsoleted and quota tool version to obsolete gfs2_quota. Might be a good
idea to document it, so that users won´t attempt random back-ports.

Fabio