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1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
4 mdadm version 2.1
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6 It is available at the usual places:
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
8 and
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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11 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
12 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
13 known as Software RAID arrays.
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15 Release 2.1 fixes a few problems found after the release of 2.0.
16 If you are using raid10 or version-1 superblocks and upgrade is
17 recommended.
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19 Specifically:
20 - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
21 mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
22 depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
23 handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed.
24 - Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
25 - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
26 have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored.
27 - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
28 - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
29 arrays.
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32 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
33 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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35 NeilBrown 12th September 2005
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