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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.0.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-
-as both a source tar-ball, as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
-a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
-including:
- - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
- - moving spares between arrays as needed
- - assembling arrays based on superblock content
- - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks
-
-The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
- - feature-complete
- - reasonably bug-free
- - reasonably well documented.
-
-I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
-necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....
-
-Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'. It is the same tool,
-just a different name.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 10may2002
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.1.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.1.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.1.0 contains a number of spell corrections, and bug fixes.
-It has improved support for MULTIPATH arrays.
-It has some new features including:
- --daemonise for use with --monitor
- --config=partitions to find devices by examining /proc/partitions
- --update=super-minor to change the recorded minor-number for an array
-
-Much of the improvements are due to user feed-back. Thanks are due to all who
-gave suggestions and reported problems.
-
-I expect the next major release to be 2.0.0 which will include support for
-a new super-block format soon to be supported by 2.5 series kernels.
-
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 03/03/03
- The third day
-of the third month
-of the third year
-of the third millenium
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.10.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.10.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.9.0 adds:
- - 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.
-
-The first update is the most significant ("mdadm -Escpartitions" would crash).
-The others are mildly useful extras.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 04 April 2005
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.11.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.11.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.11.0 adds:
- - Fix embarrasing bug in 1.10.0 which causes --add to always fail.
- thanks to Dave Jiang <djiang at mvista dot com> for reporting it.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 11 April 2005
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.2.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.2.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.2.0 is a bug-fix release over 1.1.0.
-
- - Fix bug where --daemonise required an argument.
- - In --assemble --verbose, print appropriate message if device is
- not in devices= list
- - Updated mdadm.conf.5 to reflect fact that device= takes wildcards
- - Typos: componenet -> component
- - Reduce size of "--help" message put excess into "--help-options"
- - Fix bug introduced when MD_SB_DISKS dependancy removed, and which
- caused spares not be assembled properly.
- - Print appropriate message if --monitor --scan decides not to
- monitor anything.
-
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 13/03/03
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.3.0 - A tools for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.3.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.3.0 is a bug-fix and minor feature update release over 1.2.0.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 29 Jul 2003
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.4.0 - A tools for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.4.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.4.0 adds:
- SparesMissing event in --monitor mode if a number of spares is declared
- in mdadm.conf, but that number of spares isn't found.
- --update=summaries option for --assemble mode to update some summary information
- in the superblock
- --test option for --detail to get a useful exit status.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 29 Oct 2003
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.5.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.5.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.5.0 adds:
- - new command "mdassemble" for use in initrd/initramfs.
- - raid6 support (for 2.6.2 and later kernels)
- - RebuildFinished event in monitor mode.
- - include rebuild status in --detail output.
- - fixes for assorted compilation problems
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 22 Jan 2004
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.6.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.6.0 adds:
- - --grow which (in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 and hopefully 2.6.8) allows raid1/4/5/6
- arrays to change the active size of the underlying devices, and allows
- raid1 arrays to change the number of active drives.
- - Allows --build to buld raid1 and multipath arrays.
- - adds "degraded" and "recovering" as possibilities for the status line
- in --detail
- - fixes a bug in 1.5.0 which stopped resync status messages from being
- generated in --monitor mode
- - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
- and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary
- device files after allocating an unused array number.
- - assorted minor fixes and improvements.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 4 Jun 2004
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.7.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.7.0 adds:
- - 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
-
-It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
-and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
-array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new
-superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
-Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released
-so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 11 August 2004
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.8.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.8.0 adds:
- - --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for
- --monitor --daemonise
- - Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to
- kernel.org yet.
- - support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes.
- - assorted bug fixes.
-
-It is hoped that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
-and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
-array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new
-superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
-1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 01 November 2004
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux - DEVELOPMENT version
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.8.1
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-This is a "development" release of mdadm. It should *not* be
-considered stable and should be used primarily for testing.
-The current "stable" version is 1.8.0.
-
-Release 1.8.1 supports different styles of superblocks (aka RAID metadata).
-Two formats are currently supported
- version 0.90.0 - the traditional Linux RAID superblock
- version 1 - a new superblock which less useless information and some more
- flexability.
-
-Version 1 supports more than 28 devices in an array, and RAID1 and greater over
-devices larger than 2TB (though a 2TB RAID1 would take forever to resync!).
-
-mdadm 1.8.1 takes a different approach to creating arrays than
-previous versions, though this is largely transparent. Instead of
-giving the devices to the kernel and letting it "create" the array and
-write out initial superblocks, mdadm 1.8.1 writes out the initial
-superblocks itself, thus creating the array, and then asks the kernel
-to assemble that array.
-
-Version 1 superblocks requires 2.6.10 or a recent 2.6.10-rc snapshot.
-
-Enhancements that are expected before this becomes 2.0.0:
-
- - mdassemble currently doesn't compile
- - version 1 superblocks have room for a label, which currently isn't used.
- Setting the label, and assembling arrays by label will be supported.
- A label like "$HOSTNAME-root" could be the standard label for the device
- containing the root filesystem for $HOSTNAME.
-
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 05 November 2004
-
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
- mdadm version 1.9.0
-It is available at
- http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
-and
- http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-
-as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
-
-mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
-device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
-known as Software RAID arrays.
-
-Release 1.9.0 adds:
- - 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.
-
-This is based on 1.8.0 and *not* on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release
-for the upcoming 2.0.0. The next prerelease will have a more obvious name.
-
-Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
- The School of Computer Science and Engineering
-at
- The University of New South Wales
-
-NeilBrown 04 February 2005
-
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