ANNOUNCE-2.6.9

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.9 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 2.6.9
   5
   6 It is available at the usual places:
   7    countrycode=xx.
   8    http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
   9 and via git at
  10    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
  11    http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
  12
  13 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
  14 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
  15 known as Software RAID arrays.
  16
  17 Release 2.6.9 contains various bug fixes.
  18 Clearly 2.6.8 was not the final 2.x release.
  19 Hopefully 2.6.9 will be as I don't want go to 2.7, and
  20 2.6.10 might be confusing (though I'll probably go that
  21 way if I need to).
  22
  23 New features will only appear in the 3.x series of which 3.0 will be
  24 release within a few months.
  25
  26 Changelog Entries:
  27  Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (1):
  28       mdadm fix compilation for uClibc
  29
  30  Dustin Kirkland (2):
  31       Fail overtly when asprintf fails to allocate memory
  32       Typo in earlier patch : asprintf -> vasprintf
  33
  34  NeilBrown (11):
  35       Allow --config in --incremental mode.
  36       Kill:  Don't use O_EXCL when --force is used.
  37       Assemble: don't assume array is 'clean' unless all devices think it is.
  38       Assemble: set stripe_cache_size properly when restarting a reshape.
  39       map: rebuild map if it doesn't exist.
  40       Free mdstat data structures properly.
  41       Fix the used device size in mdadm -D output.
  42       Document 'max' option to --grow --size in --help output.
  43       Fix possible crash if bitmap metadata is bad.
  44       Monitor: send --test message for arrays in /proc/mdstat that aren't in mdadm.conf
  45       super1: make sure max_dev grows enough when adding a device to an array.
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  47
  48 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
  49  SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
  50
  51 NeilBrown  28th November 2008