ANNOUNCE-2.1

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.1
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   6 It is available at the usual places:
   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 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
  12 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
  13 known as Software RAID arrays.
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  15 Release 2.1 fixes a few problems found after the release of 2.0.
  16 If you are using raid10 or version-1 superblocks and upgrade is
  17 recommended.
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  19 Specifically:
  20     -   Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
  21           mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
  22           depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
  23           handle "--assemble --force"  if multiple devices have failed.
  24     -   Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
  25     -   Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
  26           have spares.  Previously the spares would be ignored.
  27     -   Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
  28     -   Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
  29           arrays.
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  32 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  33  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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  35 NeilBrown  12th September 2005
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