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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 2.2 | |
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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 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of | |
16 | functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of | |
17 | 'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be | |
18 | most welcome. | |
19 | ||
20 | Changelog Entries: | |
21 | - Assorted bug fixes | |
22 | - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10 | |
23 | - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps. | |
24 | - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S' | |
25 | - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output. | |
26 | - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have | |
27 | optional arguements: the arg is either required or not | |
28 | depending on context. | |
29 | - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even | |
30 | if they don't appear in /dev. | |
31 | - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build | |
32 | - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog. | |
33 | Thanks to Ross Vandegrift | |
34 | - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message | |
35 | This broke with 2.6 | |
36 | - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash. | |
37 | mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this | |
38 | isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata | |
39 | was being updated. | |
40 | - Support --update==uuid | |
41 | - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an | |
42 | initram for starting md arrays at boot. | |
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45 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by | |
46 | SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. | |
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48 | NeilBrown 5th December 2005 | |
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