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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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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/ | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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 | |
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48 | NeilBrown 04 February 2005 | |
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