[ol8_u5_baseos_base] vdo-6.2.5.74-14.el8.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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• Fri Aug 20 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.74-14

  - Renamed vdo2LVM to vdopreparelvm and moved its installation location to
    /usr/libexec so that it is not in common default paths as this utility is
    intended to be called from LVM, not directly by users.
  - Related: rhbz#1986930

• Thu Jul 22 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.65-14

  - Fixed Coverity scan issues.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1982878

• Thu Jul 15 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.62-14

  - Removed extraneous fields from the super block of a converted index.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1965546
  - Added a parameter to the lvm conversion tool to specify the amount of
    space to free up.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1966827
  - Fixed calculation of the number of expiring chapters in a converted
    index.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1975546

• Tue Jun 01 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.41-14

  - Integrated the vdo to lvm conversion tool into the vdo management script
    and modified the tool itself to correctly convert the UDS index so that
    dedupe information is not lost by conversion.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1928284

• Thu May 20 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.21-14

  - Added a tool for converting a VDO volume from the vdo management script
    to LVM. The tool can be invoked from the new vdo convert command.
  - Related: rhbz#1928284
  - Fixed a (relatively harmless) buffer overflow in vdo userspace tools.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1927938

• Thu May 13 2021 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.5.11-14

  - Introduced new memory size parameter values for UDS indexes which have
    been converted from vdo script management to LVM.
  - Related: rhbz1928284
  - Modified vdo script to fail if the same option is supplied multiple
    times.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1944087
  - Fixed permissions on the vdo script's lock directory.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1952105

• Thu Oct 01 2020 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.4.14-14

  - Added --pending option to the vdo status command to indicate
    configuration options which have been modified but will not take
    effect until the next device start.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1838314

• Fri Jun 19 2020 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.3.107-14

  - Fixed more Coverity errors.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1827763

• Tue Jun 09 2020 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.3.100-14

  - Modified vdoformat to display the minimum required physical size for the
    specified parameters if the format fails due to insufficient space.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1683945
  - Modified the vdo status command to report values from running devices
    rather than the config file when the devices are running.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1790983
  - Actually made the new summary mode of vdoaudit the default.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1687996
  - Fixed a bug in vdodumpmetadata and vdodumpblockmap which could result in
    the wrong block(s) being dumped.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1643297

• Tue Jun 02 2020 - Andy Walsh <awalsh@redhat.com> - 6.2.3.91-14

  - Removed unused UDS bio statistics
  - Resolves: rhbz#1827762
  - Added a summary mode to vdoaudit and made this mode the default. Also
    added histograms.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1687996
  - Modified vdostats to accept short (one character) options.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1787472
  - Modified vdo script to use lsblk to identify LVM created VDO volumes.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1825344
  - Modified vdo script to avoid unnecessary config file updates when
    removing VDO volumes.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1804440
  - Fixed a cast which caused a Coverity complaint.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1827763
  - Fixed a cut&paste error in the vdosetuuid man page.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1643297
  - Fixed documentation of logical threads.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1827764
  - Began creation of a package of binaries for investigating VDO issues.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1643297
  - Updated VDO to use udev/systemd rules for startup.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1837759
  - Modified VDO volume creation to use libblkid instead of pvcreate to
    determine whether the underlying storage is already in use. Moved
    these checks from the vdo script into the vdoformat utility.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1771698
  - Modified the vdo status command to treat a running vdo volume is
    authoratative over the config file.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1790983
  - Added a new utility, vdoregenerategeometry, which can be used to
    recover a VDO whose initial blocks have been overwritten
    accidentaly.
  - Resolves: rhbz#1773421