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1 | Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux | |
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4 | I am pleased to announce the availability of | |
5 | mdadm version 1.8.0 | |
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 1.8.0 adds: | |
18 | - --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for | |
19 | --monitor --daemonise | |
20 | - Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to | |
21 | kernel.org yet. | |
22 | - support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes. | |
23 | - assorted bug fixes. | |
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25 | It is hoped that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0 | |
26 | and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and | |
27 | array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new | |
28 | superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6. | |
29 | 1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality. | |
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31 | Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: | |
32 | The School of Computer Science and Engineering | |
33 | at | |
34 | The University of New South Wales | |
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36 | NeilBrown 01 November 2004 | |
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