Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 1.0.0 It is available at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ as both a source tar-ball, as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386. mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also known as Software RAID arrays. mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality including: - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues - moving spares between arrays as needed - assembling arrays based on superblock content - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is - feature-complete - reasonably bug-free - reasonably well documented. I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see.... Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'. It is the same tool, just a different name. Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: The School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales NeilBrown 10may2002