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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.4.0 - A tools for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| 4 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
| 5 | mdadm version 1.4.0 | |
| 6 | It is available at | |
| 7 | http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ | |
| 8 | and | |
| 9 | http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/ | |
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| 11 | as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386. | |
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| 13 | mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring | |
| 14 | device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also | |
| 15 | known as Software RAID arrays. | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | Release 1.4.0 adds: | |
| 18 | SparesMissing event in --monitor mode if a number of spares is declared | |
| 19 | in mdadm.conf, but that number of spares isn't found. | |
| 20 | --update=summaries option for --assemble mode to update some summary information | |
| 21 | in the superblock | |
| 22 | --test option for --detail to get a useful exit status. | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: | |
| 25 | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | |
| 26 | at | |
| 27 | The University of New South Wales | |
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| 29 | NeilBrown 29 Oct 2003 |