ANNOUNCE-2.5.4

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.5.4
   5
   6 It is available at the usual places:
   7    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
   8 and
   9    countrycode=xx.
  10    http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
  11 and via git at
  12    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
  13    http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
  14
  15 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
  16 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
  17 known as Software RAID arrays.
  18
  19 Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3
  20
  21 Changelog Entries:
  22     -   When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks
  23         from /dev.  e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0.
  24         Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line.
  25     -   Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
  26         bigendian only).
  27     -   Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
  28     -   Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
  29         This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
  30     -   Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of
  31         an md array.  This is a work-around for annoying messages
  32         when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a
  33         partition table.
  34
  35 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  36  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
  37
  38 NeilBrown 13th October 2006