Changes Prior to this 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
+
+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
+ Several of these are backported from the Debian package
- Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat.
- Document --size=max option for --grow
- Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
+ - --stop --scan repeatly cycles until no more progress can be made
+ so that stack devices are stopped properly
+ - Minor type rationalisation for ident->uuid - now always 'int[]'
+ - Fix type in online help for --grow (was -F, now -G)
+ - Allow --auto command line option to set default auto=
+ value when running "--assemble --scan". Previously
+ --auto was ignored if --scan was given
+ - Fix a few type casts
+ - Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard
+ - Fix rounding errors in human_size()
+ - Fix silly example in mdadm.conf-examples
+ - When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names
+ - Suppress listing of devices= in --brief output of -D or -E,
+ unless -v is given (-vv gives the old behaviour with -Dsv).
+ This is because the device list can change and so is not a
+ stable aspect of the array
+ - Allow --force with --grow so '-Gfn1' works (on raid1)
+ - Replace sprintf calls with snprintf (to quiet diet-libc)
+ - Add man page for mdassemble
+ - Fix compilation with tinyc
Changes Prior to 1.11.0 release
- Fix embarassing bug which causes --add to always fail.
- Open sub-devices with O_EXCL to detect if already in use
- Make sure superblock updates are flushed directly to disk.
-Changes Prior to 2.0-deve-1 release
+Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-1 release
- Support for version-1 superblock. See --metadata option.
- Support for bitmap based intent logging.
- Minor fixes.