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1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.4.0 - A tools for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
5 mdadm version 1.4.0
6 It is available at
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
8 and
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/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 1.4.0 adds:
18 SparesMissing event in --monitor mode if a number of spares is declared
19 in mdadm.conf, but that number of spares isn't found.
20 --update=summaries option for --assemble mode to update some summary information
21 in the superblock
22 --test option for --detail to get a useful exit status.
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24 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
25 The School of Computer Science and Engineering
26 at
27 The University of New South Wales
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29 NeilBrown 29 Oct 2003