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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| 3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
| 4 | mdadm version 2.1 | |
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| 6 | It is available at the usual places: | |
| 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 | mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring | |
| 12 | device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also | |
| 13 | known as Software RAID arrays. | |
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| 15 | Release 2.1 fixes a few problems found after the release of 2.0. | |
| 16 | If you are using raid10 or version-1 superblocks and upgrade is | |
| 17 | recommended. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | Specifically: | |
| 20 | - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing. | |
| 21 | mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not | |
| 22 | depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly | |
| 23 | handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed. | |
| 24 | - Report raid10 layout in --examine output. | |
| 25 | - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and | |
| 26 | have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored. | |
| 27 | - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once. | |
| 28 | - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock | |
| 29 | arrays. | |
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| 32 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by | |
| 33 | SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. | |
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| 35 | NeilBrown 12th September 2005 | |
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