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+Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of
+ mdadm version 2.2
+
+It is available at the usual places:
+ http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
+and
+ http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+
+mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+known as Software RAID arrays.
+
+Release 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of
+functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of
+'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be
+most welcome.
+
+Changelog Entries:
+ - Assorted bug fixes
+ - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
+ - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
+ - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
+ - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
+ - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
+ optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
+ depending on context.
+ - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
+ if they don't appear in /dev.
+ - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
+ - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
+ Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
+ - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
+ This broke with 2.6
+ - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
+ mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
+ isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
+ was being updated.
+ - Support --update==uuid
+ - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
+ initram for starting md arrays at boot.
+
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by
+ SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
+
+NeilBrown 5th December 2005
+
+
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