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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4-pre1 - development release for testing only |
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3 | I am somewhat cautious in announcing the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 2.4-pre1 | |
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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 | pre-release 2.4-pre1 contains support for growing a raid5 array i.e. | |
12 | adding extra drives and restriping the whole arrays. | |
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14 | This requires a kernel more recent than 2.6.16-rc6-mm2. | |
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16 | During a restripe, there is a crtical section at the start where a | |
17 | system crash can leave the contents of the raid5 unrecoverable. This | |
18 | version of mdadm will backup that section, and can restore it when | |
19 | reassembling the array after a crash. | |
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21 | Have fun, but use it carefully and report any problems. | |
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23 | NeilBrown 20th March 2006 | |
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