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1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.6 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
2
3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
4 mdadm version 2.5.6
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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 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
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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.
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19 Release 2.5.6 is a bugfix release over 2.5.5, which it turns out
20 wasn't the last before 2.6. Maybe this one?
21
22 Changelog Entries:
23 - Fix bug which meant "bitmap=xxx" in mdadm.conf was not handled
24 properly.
25 - Documentation updates.
26 - Fix bug that caused infinite loop when doing auto-assembly,
27 in certain cases where arrays couldn't be assembled.
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29 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
30 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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32 NeilBrown 6th November 2006