ANNOUNCE-1.0.0

   1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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   4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   5    mdadm version 1.0.0
   6 It is available at
   7    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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   9 as both a source tar-ball, as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
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  11 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
  12 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
  13 known as Software RAID arrays.
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  15 mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
  16 a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
  17 including:
  18    - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
  19    - moving spares between arrays as needed
  20    - assembling arrays based on superblock content
  21    - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks
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  23 The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
  24    - feature-complete
  25    - reasonably bug-free
  26    - reasonably well documented.
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  28 I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
  29 necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....
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  31 Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'.  It is the same tool,
  32 just a different name.
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  34 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
  35   The School of Computer Science and Engineering
  36 at
  37   The University of New South Wales
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  39 NeilBrown  10may2002