+Changes Prior to this release
+ - Support 'mailfrom' line in mdadm.conf so the From: line in alert
+ emails can be explicitly set.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.4.1 release
+ - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent
+ superblocks.
+ - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks.
+ NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
+ If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
+ use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.4 release
+ - Rewrite 'reshape' support including performing a backup
+ of the critical region for a raid5 growth, and restoring that
+ backup after a crash.
+ - Put a 'canary' at each end of the backup so a corruption
+ can be more easily detected.
+ - Remove useless 'ident' arguement from ->getinfo_super method.
+ - Support --backup-file for backing-up critical section during
+ growth.
+ - Erase old superblocks (of different versions) when creating new
+ array.
+ - Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices
+ - Report reshape information in --detail
+ - Handle symlinks in /dev better
+ - Fix mess in --detail output which a device is missing.
+ - Manpage tidyup
+ - Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with
+ write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
+ - Updates to md.4 man page including section on RESTRIPING and SYSFS
+
+Changes Prior to 2.3.1 release
+ - Fixed -O2 compile so I could make and RPM.
+ - Type cast number to be printed %llu so it compiles on 64bit
+ machines. (Thanks Luca).
+ - Stop using asm/byteorder.h - to make Redhat happy :-(
+ - Require bitmap files to have a '/' in their name.
+ - Error-check a few syscalls - code from SuSE package.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.3 release
+ - Try /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist.
+ This provided compatability for Debian.
+ - Fixed for version-1 superblock:
+ report chunksize for raid6 and raid10
+ make sure device size used is a multiple of chunksize
+ - Fix "--assemble --scan" crash.
+ - Fix completely failure to create array on ppc64
+ - Fix memcmp in place of memcpy
+ - A few minor improvements to online help
+ - Clean up usage of 'long long' for used-size of devices, so
+ that it is possible to create a raid1 of 7TB devices!
+ - Make internal bitmaps work on 7TB raid1 arrays.
+ - Provide error message if --examine doesn't find any superblock.
+ - Report 'reshape' status in --examine - this depends on kernel
+ patches that are not yet finalised.
+ - Report bitmap status in --detail and --examine
+ - Default to v1 superblocks instead of v0.90 if the array
+ is too big for 0.90 to handle.
+ - Sort the output of "mdadm --detail --scan" so that it is
+ in a suitable order for assembling arrays. i.e. components come
+ before an array that they are part of.
+ - Print size of large reiserfs array properly went warning of
+ possible confilcts.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.2 release
+ - 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.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.1 release
+ - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
+ mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
+ depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
+ handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed.
+ - Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
+ - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
+ have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored.
+ - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
+ - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
+ arrays.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.0
+ - Support assembling from byte-swapped superblocks
+ metadata type "0.swap" and --update=byteorder
+ - write-mostly and write-behind support for raid1.
+ - Support --name= and 'name=' config entry for identifying
+ arrays be name.
+ - RAID10 in man pages.
+ - Lot of minor manpage updates
+
+Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-3 release
+ - Assorted fixes for multiple bugs...
+ - Add test suite
+
+Changes Prior to 1.12.0 release
+ Several of these are backported from the Debian package
+ - Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat.
+ - Document --size=max option for --grow
+ - Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
+ - --stop --scan repeatly cycles until no more progress can be made
+ so that stack devices are stopped properly
+ - Minor type rationalisation for ident->uuid - now always 'int[]'
+ - Fix type in online help for --grow (was -F, now -G)
+ - Allow --auto command line option to set default auto=
+ value when running "--assemble --scan". Previously
+ --auto was ignored if --scan was given
+ - Fix a few type casts
+ - Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard
+ - Fix rounding errors in human_size()
+ - Fix silly example in mdadm.conf-examples
+ - When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names
+ - Suppress listing of devices= in --brief output of -D or -E,
+ unless -v is given (-vv gives the old behaviour with -Dsv).
+ This is because the device list can change and so is not a
+ stable aspect of the array
+ - Allow --force with --grow so '-Gfn1' works (on raid1)
+ - Replace sprintf calls with snprintf (to quiet diet-libc)
+ - Add man page for mdassemble
+ - Fix compilation with tinyc
+
+Changes Prior to 1.11.0 release
+ - Fix embarassing bug which causes --add to always fail.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.10.0 release
+ - Fix bug with --config=partitions
+ - Open sub-devices with O_EXCL to detect if already in use
+ - Make sure superblock updates are flushed directly to disk.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-1 release
+ - Support for version-1 superblock. See --metadata option.
+ - Support for bitmap based intent logging.
+ - Minor fixes.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.9.0 release
+ - Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
+ - Minor manpage updates
+ - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
+ - --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
+ the appropriate major/minor number for them.
+ - Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of
+ "foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
+ "f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
+ - Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of
+ "MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
+ on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
+ - Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
+ - Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
+ it to find devices, rather than only once.
+ - Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
+ order in which arrays are stopped.
+ - Improve some error messages.
+ - Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
+ mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
+ works.
+ - Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
+ - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.8.0 release
+ - Makefile cleanup from Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
+ - --pid-file (-i) to set a pid file to use with --monitor --daemonise
+ - Fix typo in mdadm man page
+ - Fix coredump when "-s" used with no config file present.
+ - Support new "faulty" personality which can inject synthetic
+ faults. (Not in kernel.org yet at 1Nov2004)
+ - Support raid0/linear on devices > 2 Terabytes
+ - Make sure raid6 resyncs when created with one missing device
+
+Changes Prior to 1.7.0 release
+ - Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
+ kernel supports it. Not documented yet.
+ - Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
+ - Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
+ reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
+ - Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it
+ anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
+ - Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
+ - Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
+ array is assembled.
+ - Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
+ Not documented yet.
+ - --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
+ even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
+
+Changes Prior to 1.6.0 release
+ - Device name given in -Eb is determined by examining /dev rather
+ than assuming /dev/md%d
+ - Fix bug in --monitor where an array could be held open an so
+ could not be stopped without killing mdadm.
+ - Add --grow mode. Currently only --size and --raid-disks can be
+ changed. Both require kernel support which, at the time of
+ writing, is not in a release kernel yet.
+ - Don't print out "errors" or "no-errors" in -D and -E, as the bit
+ is never set or used.
+ - Use md event notification in 2.6.??? to make --monitor mode
+ respond instantly to events.
+ - Add --auto= option and auto= configfile entry to tell mdadm to
+ create device files as needed. This is particularly useful
+ with partitioned arrays where the major device number can change.
+ - When generating --brief listing, if the standard name doesn't
+ exist, search /dev for one rather than using a temp name.
+ - Allow --build to build raid1 and multipath arrays.
+ - Add "--assume-clean" for Create and Build, particularly for raid1
+ Note: this is dangerous. Only use it if you are certain.
+ - Fix bug so that Rebuild status monitoring works again.
+ - Add "degraded" and "recovering" options to the "Status:"
+ entry for --detail
+
+Changes Prior to 1.5.0 release
+ - new commands "mdassemble" which is a stripped-down equivalent of
+ "mdadm -As", that can be compiled with dietlibc.
+ Thanks to Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>.
+ It can be using in an initramfs or initrd.
+ - Fix compiling error with BLKGETSIZE64 and some signed/unsigned
+ comparison warnings.
+ - Add Rebuild Status (% complete) to --detail output.
+ - Support "--monitor --test" which will generate a test alert
+ for each array once, to test notification paths.
+ - Generate RebuildFinished event when rebuild finishes.
+ - Support for raid6 as found in 2.6.2 - thanks to
+ H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
+ - Support partitioned md arrays with a different major number and
+ naming scheme (md_dX in /proc/mdstat, /dev/md/dXpY in /dev).
+
Changes Prior to 1.4.0 release
- Document fact that creating a raid5 array really creates a
degraded array with a spare.
the --help output, is not wholy correct. After I get --follow
working properly, I plan to revise the various documentation and/or
the code to make sure the two match.
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