ANNOUNCE-1.8.0

   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.
  24
  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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