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1Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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3I am pleased to announce the availability of
4 mdadm version 2.5.5
5
6It is available at the usual places:
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
8and
9 countrycode=xx.
10 http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
11and via git at
12 git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
13 http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
14
15mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
16device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
17known as Software RAID arrays.
18
19Release 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4.
20Hopefully the last before 2.6.
21
22Changelog Entries:
23 - Don't #include linux/blkpg.h as that isn't safe. Just
24 include the content literally.
25 - Reduce maximum bitmap usage when working with bitmap files,
26 so that a only single-page allocations are made, even on
27 64bit hosts with 4K pages.
28 - Close stray fd in mdassemble so that it can assemble stacked
29 devices
30 - If mdassemble finds an array already assembled, it marks it
31 read-write.
32 - Remove error in md_open if array is already active. This isn't
33 needed and gets in the ways if an array was created e.g. in
34 initramfs, but device doesn't yet exist in /dev.
35 - When --assemble --scan is run, if all arrays that could be found
36 have already been started, don't report an error.
37 - Fix a couple of bugs related to raid10 and the new 'offset' layout.
38 - Improve error message when a wrong '--update' option is given.
39
40Development of mdadm is sponsored by
41 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
42
43NeilBrown 23rd October 2006