1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
6 It is available at the usual places:
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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.
15 Release 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of
16 functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of
17 'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be
22 - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
23 - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
24 - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
25 - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
26 - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
27 optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
29 - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
30 if they don't appear in /dev.
31 - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
32 - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
33 Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
34 - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
36 - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
37 mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
38 isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
40 - Support --update==uuid
41 - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
42 initram for starting md arrays at boot.
45 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
46 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
48 NeilBrown 5th December 2005