ANNOUNCE-3.1

   1 Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
   2
   3 Hot on the heals of 3.0.3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
   4    mdadm version 3.1
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   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
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  14 It contains significant feature enhancements over 3.0.x
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  16 The brief change log is:
  17    -    Support --grow to change the layout of RAID4/5/6
  18    -    Support --grow to change the chunksize of raid 4/5/6
  19    -    Support --grow to change level from RAID1 -> RAID5 -> RAID6 and
  20         back.
  21    -    Support --grow to reduce the number of devices in RAID4/5/6.
  22    -    Support restart of these grow options which assembling an array
  23         which is partially grown.
  24    -    Assorted tests of this code, and of different RAID6 layouts.
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  26 Note that a 2.6.31 or later is needed to have access to these.
  27 Reducing devices in a RAID4/5/6 requires 2.6.32.
  28 Changing RAID5 to RAID1 requires 2.6.33.
  29
  30 You should only upgrade if you need to use, or which to test, these
  31 features.
  32
  33 NeilBrown 22nd October 2009