ANNOUNCE-2.0-devel-2

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0-devel-2 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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   4 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   5    mdadm version 2.0-devel-2
   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 2.0-devel-2 is a development release that quit possible has
  18   bugs.  It released in the hope of getting wider testing.
  19   It adds support for version-1 superblock which allow more that 28 devices
  20   in an array (among other things) and for bitmap-based-write-intent-logging
  21   which can improve resync speed after an unclean shutdown.
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  23 This release contains assorted fixes and forward-ports from 1.12.0
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  25 Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
  26   The School of Computer Science and Engineering
  27 at
  28   The University of New South Wales
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  30 NeilBrown  7 July 2005
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