[ol7_u8_base] kmod-kvdo-6.1.3.7-5.0.1.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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• Wed Nov 20 2019 EL Errata <el-errata_ww@oracle.com> - 6.1.3.7-5.0.1

  - add RHCK signature

• Thu Sep 05 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.3.7-5

  - Fixed a rare bug which would log an assertion failure when shutting down
    a VDO device.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1749000

• Tue Aug 20 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.3.4-5

  - Reduced and rate limited more error logging in order to avoid kernel
    soft-lockups.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1706196
  - Fixed a bug in the handling of re-used bios. This bug resulted in a
    kernel panic when rebooting a system after a crash with a VDO device on
    USB attached storage.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1676643

• Wed Mar 27 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.2.41-5

  - Reduced and rate limited error logging in order to avoid kernel soft-lockups.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1687005

• Tue Mar 19 2019 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> 6.1.2.38-5

  - Fixed more error path memory leaks.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1609426
  - Rebased to version 6.2.0 of the UDS module
    - Resolves: rhbz#1637762
  - Improved counting of dedupe timeouts by including in the count queries
    which are not made due to their being a lack of resources from previous
    queries taking too long.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1639898
  - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference if dmeventd registration fails.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1640794
  - Fixed a bug in the statistics tracking partial I/Os.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1594406
  - Allowed VDO backing devices to be specified by major:minor device number.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1637762
  - Suppressed egregious read-only error logging.
    - Resolves: rhbz#1687005

• 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