[ol7_latest] vdo-6.1.3.23-5.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 user-space management tools for VDO.

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• Thu Apr 09 2020 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.3.23-5

  - Updated systemd integration to allow more flexible startup configuration.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1706154

• Tue Aug 20 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.3.4-4

  - Added UUID filtering of underlying devices when running vdo create with
    the --force flag as this failed when run on certain PVs.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1707481

• Wed Mar 27 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.2.41-4

  - Removed the VDO Ansible module and associated examples from this package.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1536515
  - Improved error messages from the vdo script.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1688481

• Tue Mar 19 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.2.38-3

  - Fixed more error path memory leaks.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1609426
  - Improved man pages.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1636047
  - Improved checking for existing LVM physical volumes when formatting a new
    VDO volume.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1687797
  - Fixed a bug which would cause the default logical size to be 480 KB
    smaller than it could be without causing over-provisioning.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1532697
  - Removed extraneous man pages.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1643284
  - Allowed VDO backing devices to be specified by major:minor device number.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1637762
  - Improved behavior when attempting to create a VDO volume whose name conflicts
    with an existing dm target.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1588140
  - Modified vdo script to report fewer errors when removing a VDO which
    sits atop a missing device.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1535476

• Fri Sep 14 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.125-3

  - Re-sync with the 'kmod-kvdo' package.
  - Related: rhbz#1628318

• Sun Jul 29 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.120-3

  - Improved error messages in the vdo script when failing to stop a device.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1511106
  - Improved man pages.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1572640
  - Modified vdo script to ignore (but preserve) unrecognised parameters in
    the vdo config file so that config files are compatible across versions.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1604060
  - Updated Ansible module to change block map cache size on existing volumes
  - Resolves: rhbz#1541170

• Sun Jul 15 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.111-3

  - Added support for issuing fullness warnings via dmeventd
  - rhbz#1519307
  - Provided missing error code to text translation for vdoDumpConfig.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1595129
  - Improved error reporting when using pvcreate in the vdo script to check
    for pre-existing devices when creating a VDO volume.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1557464

• Wed Jun 20 2018 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.1.1.99-2

  - Modified the vdo script to not allow creation of a VDO device on top of
    an already running VDO device.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1572640
  - Made the ordering of the output of vdo list stable.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1589363
  - Added the proper dist tag
  - Resolves: rhbz#1588043

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

  - Improved and corrected man pages.
  - Improved error handling in vdo script when stopping volumes in use.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1511106
  - Modified the vdo script to return more specific error exit codes.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1543954
  - Improved detection of existing formats when creating new volumes.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1557464
  - Improved VDO Ansible testing playbooks.
  - Fixed compilation errors on newer versions of GCC.
  - Removed the --physical-size option to vdoformat since VDO now always uses
    the entire device on which it resides.
  - Modified vdo script to use /dev/disk/by-id to describe the location of
    VDO volumes when possible.
  - Fixed a bug where VDO would always be created with a dense index even
    when a sparse index was requested.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1570156
  - Modified the vdo script to accept decimal points or commas when
    specifying the --indexMem option.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1552146
  - Changed vdo script to not accept --vdoSlabSize=0 as a way of specifying
    the default since it was confusing. The default can be obtained by merely
    omitting the parameter entirely.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1564181
  - Modified the vdo script to require the --force option to remove a VDO
    whose underlying device is not present.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1535476

• 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
  - Removed obsolete nagios module.
  - Modified spec files to use systemd macros
  - Resolves: rhbz#1531111
  - Updated the vdo.8 man page
  - Resolves: rhbz#1547786
  - Improved some error messages