1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
11 as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
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.
18 - --grow which (in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 and hopefully 2.6.8) allows raid1/4/5/6
19 arrays to change the active size of the underlying devices, and allows
20 raid1 arrays to change the number of active drives.
21 - Allows --build to buld raid1 and multipath arrays.
22 - adds "degraded" and "recovering" as possibilities for the status line
24 - fixes a bug in 1.5.0 which stopped resync status messages from being
25 generated in --monitor mode
26 - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
27 and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary
28 device files after allocating an unused array number.
29 - assorted minor fixes and improvements.
31 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
32 The School of Computer Science and Engineering
34 The University of New South Wales