Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.4.1 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also known as Software RAID arrays. 2.4.1 primarily fixes an alignment problem in the version-1 superblock. This is an incompatible change relating to raid5-reshape. Read the change log below. Changelog Entries: - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent superblocks. - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks. NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape. If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks, use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later. Development of mdadm is sponsored by SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. NeilBrown 7th April 2006