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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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4 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
5 | mdadm version 1.6.0 | |
6 | It is available at | |
7 | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ | |
8 | and | |
9 | http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ | |
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11 | as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386. | |
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13 | mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring | |
14 | device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also | |
15 | known as Software RAID arrays. | |
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17 | Release 1.6.0 adds: | |
18 | - --grow which (in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 and hopefully 2.6.8) allows raid1/4/5/6 | |
19 | arrays to change the active size of the underlying devices, and allows | |
20 | raid1 arrays to change the number of active drives. | |
21 | - Allows --build to buld raid1 and multipath arrays. | |
22 | - adds "degraded" and "recovering" as possibilities for the status line | |
23 | in --detail | |
24 | - fixes a bug in 1.5.0 which stopped resync status messages from being | |
25 | generated in --monitor mode | |
26 | - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option | |
27 | and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary | |
28 | device files after allocating an unused array number. | |
29 | - assorted minor fixes and improvements. | |
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31 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: | |
32 | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | |
33 | at | |
34 | The University of New South Wales | |
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36 | NeilBrown 4 Jun 2004 |