Bug Fixes¶

• Dell PowerFlex driverBug #2034685: Addeda retry mechanism to check if the disconnected device isactually removed from the host ensuring that subsequentconnections succeed.

Bug Fixes¶

• Bug #2097388:Fibre Channel: Fixed issue while waiting for multipath device whenit is not populated in sysfs.

Bug Fixes¶

• Fixes an warning seen when running in a container usingoverlayfs.

• Bug #2067949:Fixed issue where we try to write into a multipath device and failsince it is not ready for I/O. Now we wait until the I/O is likelyto succeed.We introduced 2 new config options to make the wait timeconfigurable:

  • wait_mpath_device_attempts

  • wait_mpath_device_interval

  These options defaults to 4 attempts and 1 second intervalrespectively. See help text of the config options for moreinformation.

Upgrade Notes¶

• Starting with this release, we removed checks for theLVM features having versions < 2.02.115. It includesthe following:

  • LV activation support (2.02.91)

  • Thin provisioning (2.02.95)

  • –ignoreactivationskip (2.02.99)

  • lvcreate -l 100%FREE (2.02.115)

  Now the minimum supported LVM version is 2.02.115 whichwas released in 2015.

Deprecation Notes¶

• Support for Windows operating systems has been deprecated, because ofretirement of the Winstackers project.

Bug Fixes¶

• PowerFlex driverbug #2004630:Fixed regression which caused the PowerFlex (ScaleIO) connector tologin multiple times, even with an existing valid token. The ScaleIOconnector now caches and reuses the token.

• FC connectorbug #2051237: Fixissue with fibre channel connector scanning partial targets.We search for target information in sysfs, first in fc_transportand then in fc_report_ports.