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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
2 | ||
3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 2.5.5 | |
5 | ||
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 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4. | |
20 | Hopefully the last before 2.6. | |
21 | ||
22 | Changelog 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 | ||
40 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by | |
41 | SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. | |
42 | ||
43 | NeilBrown 23rd October 2006 |