[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / ANNOUNCE-3.1.2

Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

I am pleased to announce the availability of
   mdadm version 3.1.2

It is available at the usual places:
   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

This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1.

Significant changes are:
  - The default metadata has change again (sorry about that).
    It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way.  It turned
    out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it 
    unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still
    suitable to use.
  - Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still
    active
  - Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file
    line.  When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to
    auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not
    auto-assemble anything else.
  - Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize.
  - VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN.
    This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the
    pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
  - Various mdmon fixes
  - Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
  - If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies,
    the previously had to be listed in the "right" order.  Now
    any order should work.
  - Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process
    of recovering.
  - Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
  - Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
  - ... and lots of other bug fixes.


This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
upgrade to 3.1.2

NeilBrown 10th March 2010
Commit	Line	Data
a4b93c9c N	1	Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
	2
	3	I am pleased to announce the availability of
	4	mdadm version 3.1.2
	5
	6	It is available at the usual places:
	7	countrycode=xx.
	8	http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
	9	and via git at
	10	git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
	11	http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
	12
	13	This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1.
	14
	15	Significant changes are:
	16	- The default metadata has change again (sorry about that).
	17	It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way. It turned
	18	out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it
	19	unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still
	20	suitable to use.
	21	- Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still
	22	active
	23	- Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file
	24	line. When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to
	25	auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not
	26	auto-assemble anything else.
	27	- Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize.
	28	- VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN.
	29	This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the
	30	pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
	31	- Various mdmon fixes
	32	- Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
	33	- If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies,
	34	the previously had to be listed in the "right" order. Now
	35	any order should work.
	36	- Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process
	37	of recovering.
	38	- Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
	39	- Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
	40	- ... and lots of other bug fixes.
	41
	42
	43	This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
	44	upgrade to 3.1.2
	45
	46	NeilBrown 10th March 2010