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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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3 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
4 | mdadm version 3.2.2 | |
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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/mdadm | |
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13 | This release is largely a stablising release for the 3.2 series. | |
14 | Many of the changes just fix bugs introduces in 3.2 or 3.2.1. | |
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16 | There are some new features. They are: | |
17 | - reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental', | |
18 | it should work properly and be largely compatible with IMSM drivers in | |
19 | other platforms. | |
20 | - --assume-clean can be used with --grow --size to avoid resyncing the | |
21 | new part of the array. This is only support with very new kernels. | |
22 | - RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2. This has been | |
23 | supported in the kernel for a while but is only now supprted by | |
24 | mdadm. | |
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26 | - A new tool 'raid6check' is available which can check a RAID6 array, | |
27 | or part of it, and report which device is most inconsistent with the | |
28 | others if any stripe is inconsistent. This is still under development | |
29 | and does not have a man page yet. If anyone tries it out and has any | |
30 | questions or experience to report, they would be most welcome on | |
31 | linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. | |
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33 | Future releases in the 3.2 series will only be made if bugfixes are needed. | |
34 | The next release to add features is expected to be 3.3. | |
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36 | NeilBrown 17th June 2011 |