+Changes Prior to 2.3.1 release
+ - Fixed -O2 compile so I could make and RPM.
+ - Type cast number to be printed %llu so it compiles on 64bit
+ machines. (Thanks Luca).
+ - Stop using asm/byteorder.h - to make Redhat happy :-(
+ - Require bitmap files to have a '/' in their name.
+ - Error-check a few syscalls - code from SuSE package.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.3 release
+ - Try /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist.
+ This provided compatability for Debian.
+ - Fixed for version-1 superblock:
+ report chunksize for raid6 and raid10
+ make sure device size used is a multiple of chunksize
+ - Fix "--assemble --scan" crash.
+ - Fix completely failure to create array on ppc64
+ - Fix memcmp in place of memcpy
+ - A few minor improvements to online help
+ - Clean up usage of 'long long' for used-size of devices, so
+ that it is possible to create a raid1 of 7TB devices!
+ - Make internal bitmaps work on 7TB raid1 arrays.
+ - Provide error message if --examine doesn't find any superblock.
+ - Report 'reshape' status in --examine - this depends on kernel
+ patches that are not yet finalised.
+ - Report bitmap status in --detail and --examine
+ - Default to v1 superblocks instead of v0.90 if the array
+ is too big for 0.90 to handle.
+ - Sort the output of "mdadm --detail --scan" so that it is
+ in a suitable order for assembling arrays. i.e. components come
+ before an array that they are part of.
+ - Print size of large reiserfs array properly went warning of
+ possible confilcts.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.2 release
+ - Assorted bug fixes
+ - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
+ - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
+ - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
+ - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
+ - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
+ optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
+ depending on context.
+ - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
+ if they don't appear in /dev.
+ - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
+ - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
+ Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
+ - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
+ This broke with 2.6
+ - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
+ mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
+ isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
+ was being updated.
+ - Support --update==uuid
+ - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
+ initram for starting md arrays at boot.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.1 release
+ - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
+ mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
+ depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
+ handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed.
+ - Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
+ - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
+ have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored.
+ - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
+ - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
+ arrays.
+
+Changes Prior to 2.0
+ - Support assembling from byte-swapped superblocks
+ metadata type "0.swap" and --update=byteorder
+ - write-mostly and write-behind support for raid1.
+ - Support --name= and 'name=' config entry for identifying
+ arrays be name.
+ - RAID10 in man pages.
+ - Lot of minor manpage updates
+
+Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-3 release
+ - Assorted fixes for multiple bugs...
+ - Add test suite
+
+Changes Prior to 1.12.0 release