ANNOUNCE-2.4

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.4
   5
   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/
  10
  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 2.4 primarily adds support for increasing the number of
  16 devices in a RAID5 array, which requires 2.6.17 (or some -rc or -mm
  17 prerelease).
  18 It also includes a number of minor functionality enhancements and
  19 documentation updates.
  20
  21 Changelog Entries:
  22     -   Rewrite 'reshape' support including performing a backup
  23         of the critical region for a raid5 growth, and restoring that
  24         backup after a crash.
  25     -   Put a 'canary' at each end of the backup so a corruption
  26         can be more easily detected.
  27     -   Remove useless 'ident' arguement from ->getinfo_super method.
  28     -   Support --backup-file for backing-up critical section during
  29         growth.
  30     -   Erase old superblocks (of different versions) when creating new
  31         array.
  32     -   Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices
  33     -   Report reshape information in --detail
  34     -   Handle symlinks in /dev better
  35     -   Fix mess in --detail output which a device is missing.
  36     -   Manpage tidyup
  37     -   Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with
  38         write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
  39     -   Updates to md.4 man page including section on RESTRIPING and SYSFS
  40
  41 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  42  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
  43
  44 NeilBrown  30th March 2006
  45