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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 2.5.4 | |
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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 | countrycode=xx. | |
10 | http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ | |
11 | and via git at | |
12 | git://neil.brown.name/mdadm | |
13 | http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm | |
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15 | mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring | |
16 | device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also | |
17 | known as Software RAID arrays. | |
18 | ||
19 | Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3 | |
20 | ||
21 | Changelog Entries: | |
22 | - When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks | |
23 | from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0. | |
24 | Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line. | |
25 | - Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects | |
26 | bigendian only). | |
27 | - Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata | |
28 | - Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto= | |
29 | This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf. | |
30 | - Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of | |
31 | an md array. This is a work-around for annoying messages | |
32 | when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a | |
33 | partition table. | |
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35 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by | |
36 | SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. | |
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38 | NeilBrown 13th October 2006 |