ANNOUNCE-2.6.3

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.6.3
   5
   6 It is available at the usual places:
   7    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
   8 and
   9    countrycode=xx.
  10    http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
  11 and via git at
  12    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
  13    http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
  14
  15 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
  16 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
  17 known as Software RAID arrays.
  18
  19 Release 2.6.3  adds a  few minor bug  fixes to 2.6.2
  20
  21 Changelog Entries:
  22     -   allow --write-behind to be set for --grow.
  23     -   When adding new disk to an array, don't reserve so much bitmap
  24         space that the disk cannot store the required data. (Needed when
  25         1.x array was created with older mdadm).
  26     -   When adding a drive that was a little too small, we did not get
  27         the correct error message.
  28     -   Make sure that if --assemble find an array in the critical region
  29         of a reshape, and cannot find the critical data to restart the
  30         reshape, it gives an error message.
  31     -   Fix segfault with '--detail --export' and non-persistent
  32         superblocks.
  33     -   Various manpage updates.
  34     -   Improved 'raid4' support (--assemble, --monitor)
  35     -   Option parsing fixes w.r.t -a
  36     -   Interpret "--assemble --metadata=1" to allow any version 1.x
  37         metadata, and be more specific in the "metadata=" message printed
  38         with --examine --brief
  39     -   Fix spare migration in --monitor.
  40
  41 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  42  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
  43
  44 NeilBrown  20th August 2007