ANNOUNCE-1.7.0

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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   3
   4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   5    mdadm version 1.7.0
   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/
  10
  11 as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
  12
  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 1.7.0 adds:
  18     -   Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
  19         kernel supports it.  Not documented yet.
  20     -   Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
  21     -   Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
  22         reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
  23     -   Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it
  24         anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
  25     -   Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
  26     -   Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
  27         array is assembled.
  28     -   Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
  29         Not documented yet.
  30     -   --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
  31         even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
  32
  33 It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
  34 and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
  35 array creation.  In particular, it will be able to work with the new
  36 superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
  37 Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released
  38 so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties.
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  40 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
  41   The School of Computer Science and Engineering
  42 at
  43   The University of New South Wales
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  45 NeilBrown  11 August 2004
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