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Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux


I am pleased to announce the availability of 
   mdadm version 1.9.0
It is available at
   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
and
   http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/

as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) 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.

Release 1.9.0 adds:
    -   Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
    -   Minor manpage updates
    -   Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
    -   --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
        the appropriate major/minor number for them.
    -   Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of 
	"foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
	"f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
    -   Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of 
	"MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
	on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
    -   Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
    -   Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
	it to find devices, rather than only once.
    -   Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
	order in which arrays are stopped.
    -   Improve some error messages.
    -   Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
	mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
	works.
    -   Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.

This is based on 1.8.0 and *not* on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release 
for the upcoming 2.0.0.  The next prerelease will have a more obvious name.

Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
at
  The University of New South Wales

NeilBrown  04 February 2005
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1de95dc0 NB	1	Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
	2
	3
	4	I am pleased to announce the availability of
	5	mdadm version 1.9.0
	6	It is available at
	7	http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
	8	and
	9	http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
	10
	11	as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
	12
	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 1.9.0 adds:
	18	- Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
	19	- Minor manpage updates
	20	- Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
	21	- --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
	22	the appropriate major/minor number for them.
	23	- Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of
	24	"foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
	25	"f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
	26	- Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of
	27	"MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
	28	on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
	29	- Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
	30	- Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
	31	it to find devices, rather than only once.
	32	- Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
	33	order in which arrays are stopped.
	34	- Improve some error messages.
	35	- Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
	36	mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
	37	works.
	38	- Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
	39
	40	This is based on 1.8.0 and not on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release
	41	for the upcoming 2.0.0. The next prerelease will have a more obvious name.
	42
	43	Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
	44	The School of Computer Science and Engineering
	45	at
	46	The University of New South Wales
	47
	48	NeilBrown 04 February 2005
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