ANNOUNCE-2.2

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.2
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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.
  14
  15 Release 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of
  16 functionality.  Possibly the most interesting is the addition of
  17 'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'.  Feedback on these would be
  18 most welcome.
  19
  20 Changelog Entries:
  21     -   Assorted bug fixes
  22     -   Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
  23     -   Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
  24     -   Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
  25     -   Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
  26     -   Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
  27         optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
  28         depending on context.
  29     -   Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
  30         if they don't appear in /dev.
  31     -   Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
  32     -   Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
  33         Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
  34     -   --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
  35            This broke with 2.6
  36     -   Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
  37         mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
  38         isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
  39         was being updated.
  40     -   Support --update==uuid
  41     -   Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
  42         initram for starting md arrays at boot.
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  45 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  46  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
  47
  48 NeilBrown  5th December 2005
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