ANNOUNCE-3.1.2

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 3.1.2
   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 This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1.
  14
  15 Significant changes are:
  16   - The default metadata has change again (sorry about that).
  17     It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way.  It turned
  18     out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it
  19     unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still
  20     suitable to use.
  21   - Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still
  22     active
  23   - Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file
  24     line.  When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to
  25     auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not
  26     auto-assemble anything else.
  27   - Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize.
  28   - VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN.
  29     This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the
  30     pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
  31   - Various mdmon fixes
  32   - Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
  33   - If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies,
  34     the previously had to be listed in the "right" order.  Now
  35     any order should work.
  36   - Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process
  37     of recovering.
  38   - Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
  39   - Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
  40   - ... and lots of other bug fixes.
  41
  42
  43 This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
  44 upgrade to 3.1.2
  45
  46 NeilBrown 10th March 2010