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Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

I am pleased to announce the availability of
   mdadm version 2.5.4

It is available at the usual places:
   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
and
   countrycode=xx.
   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
and via git at
   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm

mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
known as Software RAID arrays.

Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3

Changelog Entries:
    -   When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks
	from /dev.  e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0.
	Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line.
    -   Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
	bigendian only).
    -   Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
    -   Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
	This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
    -   Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of
	an md array.  This is a work-around for annoying messages
	when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a
	partition table.

Development of mdadm is sponsored by
 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

NeilBrown 13th October 2006
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8e64e044 NB	1	Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
	2
	3	I am pleased to announce the availability of
	4	mdadm version 2.5.4
	5
	6	It is available at the usual places:
	7	http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
	8	and
	9	countrycode=xx.
	10	http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
	11	and via git at
	12	git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
	13	http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
	14
	15	mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
	16	device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
	17	known as Software RAID arrays.
	18
	19	Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3
	20
	21	Changelog Entries:
	22	- When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks
	23	from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0.
	24	Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line.
	25	- Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
	26	bigendian only).
	27	- Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
	28	- Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
	29	This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
	30	- Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of
	31	an md array. This is a work-around for annoying messages
	32	when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a
	33	partition table.
	34
	35	Development of mdadm is sponsored by
	36	SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
	37
	38	NeilBrown 13th October 2006