[ol7_latest] kmod-kvdo-6.1.1.125-5.0.1.el7.x86_64

Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) is a device mapper target that delivers
block-level deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning.

This package provides the kernel modules for VDO.

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• Thu Nov 01 2018 Jingdong Lu <jingdong.lu@oracle.com> 6.1.1.125-5.0.1

  - depmod error for symbolic link [OraBug: 28718247] (Hui Han)
    Reviewed-by: Laurence Rochfort <laurence.rochfort@oracle.com>
  - add RHCK signature

• Tue Sep 18 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.125-5

  - Adjusted the warning when modules are found during install.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1553420

• Fri Sep 14 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.125-4

  - Attempt to unload modules and print a warning if unable to.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1553420
  - Fixed a hang when recovering a VDO volume with a physical size larger than
    16TB.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1628316

• Wed Sep 05 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.120-3

  - Rebuilt to work with kernel build
  - Resolves: rhbz#1625555

• Sun Jul 29 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.120-2

  - No longer attempt to unload modules in %preun
  - Resolves: rhbz#1553420
  - Improved memory allocation by not using the incorrect __GFP_NORETRY flag
    and by using the memalloc_noio_save mechanism.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1571292
  - Fixed a potential deadlock in the UDS index by using the kernel supplied
    struct callback instead of our own implementation of synchronous
    callbacks.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1602151
  - Fixed a potential stack overflow when reaping the recovery journal.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1608070
  - No longer attempt to unload modules in %preun
  - Resolves: rhbz#1553420
  - Improved safety around memory allocation permissions
  - Resolves: rhbz#1595923
  - Improved statistics accounting to allow for concurrent dedupe.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1540722

• Sun Jul 15 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.111-1

  - Added support for issuing fullness warnings via dmeventd
  - rhbz#1519307
  - Fixed a bug which would cause kernel panics when a VDO device is stacked on a
    RAID50 device.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1593444
  - Improved logging when growing the physical size of a VDO volume.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1597890
  - Resolves: rhbz#1597886
  - Removed misleading log messages when rebuilding the UDS index.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1599867

• Wed Jun 20 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.1.99-1

  - Added /sys/kvdo/version which contains the currently loaded version of
    the kvdo module.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1533950
  - Added logging of normal operation when a VDO device starts normally.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1520988
  - Fixed a race in the UDS module which could cause the index to go offline.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1520988
  - Fixed a bug which would cause attempts to grow the physical size of a VDO
    device to fail if the device below the VDO was resized while the VDO was
    offline.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1582647
  - Fixed thread safety issues in the UDS page cache.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1579492
  - Modified the vdo script to not allow creation of a VDO device on top of an
    already running VDO device.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1572640
  - Fixed a bug which could cause data loss when discarding unused portions of a
    VDO's logical space.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1589249
  - Modified grow physical to fail in the prepare step if the size isn't
    changing, avoiding a suspend-and-resume cycle.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1576539

• Fri May 11 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.84-1

  - Deleted unused UDS features.
  - Improved performance of sub 4K writes.
  - Simplified and improved performance of writes with FUA.
  - Improved the accuracy of dedupe statistics.
  - Made the MurmurHash3 implementation architecture independent.
  - Fixed compilation errors on newer versions of GCC.
  - Eliminated spurious allocation of a UDS sparse cache for dense indexes.
  - Fixed a deadlock resulting from sleeping while holding a spinlock while
    getting statistics.
  - Resvolves: rhbz#1562228
  - Fixed bugs related to the timing of the creation and destruction of sysfs
    nodes relative to the creation and destruction of VDO data structures.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1559692
  - Fixed a bug which made deduplication impossible to disable.
  - Removed obsolete code.
  - Improved deduplication of concurrent requests containing the same data.
  - Reduced unnecessary logging.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1511127
  - Removed the prepare_ioctl() function to avoid signature changes since
    this function currently does nothing.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1568129
  - Fixed a bug which made using a sparse index impossible to create.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1570156

• Thu May 10 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.24-1

  - Rebased to 6.1.1 branch from github
  - Resolves: rhbz#1576701
  - Improved some error messages

• Tue Feb 27 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.0.153-15

  - Fixed preun handling of loaded modules
  - Resolves: rhbz#1549178