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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.8 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 2.6.8 | |
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6 | It is available at the usual places: | |
7 | countrycode=xx. | |
8 | http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ | |
9 | and via git at | |
10 | git://neil.brown.name/mdadm | |
11 | http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm | |
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13 | mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring | |
14 | device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also | |
15 | known as Software RAID arrays. | |
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17 | Release 2.6.8 contains various bug fixes and minor enhancements. | |
18 | It is possibly that 2.6.8 will be the last release in the 2.x | |
19 | series and very likely that there will never be a 2.7. | |
20 | Hopefully 3.0 will be released soon making future development | |
21 | of 2.6.x unnecessary. However if a need does arise for a 2.6.9 | |
22 | it will be considered. | |
23 | ||
24 | Changelog Entries: | |
25 | fix add_dev() handling of broken links | |
26 | Assemble: allow --force to work even when event counts are 0. | |
27 | mapfile: fix bug in testing for /var/run/mdadm/ | |
28 | Incremental: change precedence order for autof setting. | |
29 | Adjust major number testing to allow for extended minor number in 2.6.28 | |
30 | Incremental: allow assembly of foreign array. | |
31 | Incremental: fix setting of 'autof' flag. | |
32 | Fix --incremental assembly of partitions arrays. | |
33 | Fix NULL pointer oops | |
34 | Fix bad metadata formatting | |
35 | Allow WRITEMOSTLY to be cleared on --readd using --readwrite. | |
36 | Remove .UR .UE macros from man page because the don't do what we want. | |
37 | Grow: Fix linear-growth when devices are not all the same size. | |
38 | Improve reporting of layout for raid10. | |
39 | Manage: allow adding device that is just large enough to v1.x array. | |
40 | Cosmetic cleanup of some messages. | |
41 | Clean up usage of open() | |
42 | Add support for distribution specific build extensions | |
43 | Fix confusing usage in md.4 man page. | |
44 | Describe the HOMEHOST entry in the mdadm.conf man page. | |
45 | Some more cleanup of tests. | |
46 | Add test for stoping and restarting a raid5 reshape. | |
47 | Add "bitmap=" to "--detail --brief" output when relevant. | |
48 | Improve error message when mdadm fails to stop an array. | |
49 | Couple more man page fixes | |
50 | Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata. | |
51 | Italic/bold fixes in man pages. | |
52 | Fix bug in forced assemble. | |
53 | Fix an error when assembling arrays that are in the middle of a reshape. | |
54 | ||
55 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by | |
56 | SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. | |
57 | ||
58 | NeilBrown 28th November 2008 |