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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0-devel-1 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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4 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
5 | mdadm version 2.0-devel-1 | |
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 2.0-devel-1 is a development release that quit possible has | |
18 | bugs. It released in the hope of getting wider testing. | |
19 | It adds support for version-1 superblock which allow more that 28 devices | |
20 | in an array (among other things) and for bitmap-based-write-intent-logging | |
21 | which can improve resync speed after an unclean shutdown. | |
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23 | The bitmap logging requires patches which should be in the next -mm release | |
24 | after 2.6.11-rc4 and can be downloaded from | |
25 | http://neilb.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/patches/linux-devel/2.6/2005-02-18-00/ | |
26 | which contains patches against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. | |
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29 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: | |
30 | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | |
31 | at | |
32 | The University of New South Wales | |
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34 | NeilBrown 18 February 2005 | |
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