1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.3 - 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:
8 http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
10 git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
11 http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
13 This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2
15 Significant changes are:
16 - mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to
17 /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time. This
18 location is choses and most distros provide it during early
19 boot and preserve it through. As long a /dev exists and is
20 writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created.
21 Other files file communication with mdmon live here too.
22 This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
23 udev would spin in early-boot.
24 - IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions
25 as they should only be used on whole-disks.
26 - Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
27 - A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with
28 --kill-subarray. Also subarrays can be renamed with
30 - -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used from udev to
31 fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been
32 unplugged from the system. i.e. hot-unplug-support.
33 - "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device
34 that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't
35 and will automatically --re-add it
36 - Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings.
37 - Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc
39 This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
42 It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new
43 features. 3.1.4 will only happen if important bugs show up before 3.2
46 NeilBrown 6th August 2010