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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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4 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
5 | mdadm version 1.7.0 | |
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 1.7.0 adds: | |
18 | - Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the | |
19 | kernel supports it. Not documented yet. | |
20 | - Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently. | |
21 | - Several improvements to the output of --detail, including | |
22 | reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state. | |
23 | - Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it | |
24 | anyway, so this isn't abig deal). | |
25 | - Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate. | |
26 | - Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the | |
27 | array is assembled. | |
28 | - Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6. | |
29 | Not documented yet. | |
30 | - --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file | |
31 | even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line | |
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33 | It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0 | |
34 | and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and | |
35 | array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new | |
36 | superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6. | |
37 | Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released | |
38 | so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties. | |
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40 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: | |
41 | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | |
42 | at | |
43 | The University of New South Wales | |
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45 | NeilBrown 11 August 2004 | |
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