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1Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0-devel-2 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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4I am pleased to announce the availability of
5 mdadm version 2.0-devel-2
6It is available at
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
8and
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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11as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
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13mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
14device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
15known as Software RAID arrays.
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17Release 2.0-devel-2 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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23This release contains assorted fixes and forward-ports from 1.12.0
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25Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
26 The School of Computer Science and Engineering
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28 The University of New South Wales
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30NeilBrown 7 July 2005
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