ANNOUNCE-1.6.0

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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   4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   5    mdadm version 1.6.0
   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.
  16
  17 Release 1.6.0 adds:
  18   - --grow which (in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 and hopefully 2.6.8) allows raid1/4/5/6
  19     arrays to change the active size of the underlying devices, and allows
  20     raid1 arrays to change the number of active drives.
  21   - Allows --build to buld raid1 and multipath arrays.
  22   - adds "degraded" and "recovering" as possibilities for the status line
  23     in --detail
  24   - fixes a bug in 1.5.0 which stopped resync status messages from being
  25     generated in --monitor mode
  26   - Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
  27     and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary
  28     device files after allocating an unused array number.
  29   - assorted minor fixes and improvements.
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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  4 Jun 2004