1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - 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 - --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for
20 - Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to
22 - support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes.
25 It is hoped that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
26 and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
27 array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new
28 superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
29 1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality.
31 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
32 The School of Computer Science and Engineering
34 The University of New South Wales
36 NeilBrown 01 November 2004