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1 Changes Prior to this release
2 - Support 'mailfrom' line in mdadm.conf so the From: line in alert
3 emails can be explicitly set.
4 - Arrange that SparesMissing (which is similar in import to
5 DegradedArray) generates an Email.
6 - Assume "DEVICE partitions" if no DEVICE line is given.
7 - Support new 'offset' layout for raid10.
8 - When creating a bitmap file, choose a chunksize to limit number
9 of bitmap chunks to 2 million. More than this can cause kmalloc
10 failure.
11 - New 'CREATE' line in mdadm.conf for defaults such as owner, group,
12 mode and auto-flag
13 - --detail checks if array has been started or not and includes that
14 in report.
15 - When using --update=uuid on an array with a bitmap, update the
16 bitmap's uuid too.
17 - Add a copy of /proc/mdstat to the mail message send by mdadm
18 --monitor.
19 - New flag --no-degraded to avoid starting arrays if there are
20 fewer devices available than last time the array was started.
21 This is only needed with --scan, as with --scan, that behaviour
22 is the default.
23
24 Changes Prior to 2.4.1 release
25 - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent
26 superblocks.
27 - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks.
28 NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
29 If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
30 use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
31
32 Changes Prior to 2.4 release
33 - Rewrite 'reshape' support including performing a backup
34 of the critical region for a raid5 growth, and restoring that
35 backup after a crash.
36 - Put a 'canary' at each end of the backup so a corruption
37 can be more easily detected.
38 - Remove useless 'ident' arguement from ->getinfo_super method.
39 - Support --backup-file for backing-up critical section during
40 growth.
41 - Erase old superblocks (of different versions) when creating new
42 array.
43 - Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices
44 - Report reshape information in --detail
45 - Handle symlinks in /dev better
46 - Fix mess in --detail output which a device is missing.
47 - Manpage tidyup
48 - Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with
49 write-intent bitmaps in separate files.
50 - Updates to md.4 man page including section on RESTRIPING and SYSFS
51
52 Changes Prior to 2.3.1 release
53 - Fixed -O2 compile so I could make and RPM.
54 - Type cast number to be printed %llu so it compiles on 64bit
55 machines. (Thanks Luca).
56 - Stop using asm/byteorder.h - to make Redhat happy :-(
57 - Require bitmap files to have a '/' in their name.
58 - Error-check a few syscalls - code from SuSE package.
59
60 Changes Prior to 2.3 release
61 - Try /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist.
62 This provided compatability for Debian.
63 - Fixed for version-1 superblock:
64 report chunksize for raid6 and raid10
65 make sure device size used is a multiple of chunksize
66 - Fix "--assemble --scan" crash.
67 - Fix completely failure to create array on ppc64
68 - Fix memcmp in place of memcpy
69 - A few minor improvements to online help
70 - Clean up usage of 'long long' for used-size of devices, so
71 that it is possible to create a raid1 of 7TB devices!
72 - Make internal bitmaps work on 7TB raid1 arrays.
73 - Provide error message if --examine doesn't find any superblock.
74 - Report 'reshape' status in --examine - this depends on kernel
75 patches that are not yet finalised.
76 - Report bitmap status in --detail and --examine
77 - Default to v1 superblocks instead of v0.90 if the array
78 is too big for 0.90 to handle.
79 - Sort the output of "mdadm --detail --scan" so that it is
80 in a suitable order for assembling arrays. i.e. components come
81 before an array that they are part of.
82 - Print size of large reiserfs array properly went warning of
83 possible confilcts.
84
85 Changes Prior to 2.2 release
86 - Assorted bug fixes
87 - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
88 - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
89 - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
90 - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
91 - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
92 optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
93 depending on context.
94 - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
95 if they don't appear in /dev.
96 - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
97 - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
98 Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
99 - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
100 This broke with 2.6
101 - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
102 mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
103 isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
104 was being updated.
105 - Support --update==uuid
106 - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
107 initram for starting md arrays at boot.
108
109 Changes Prior to 2.1 release
110 - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
111 mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
112 depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
113 handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed.
114 - Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
115 - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
116 have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored.
117 - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
118 - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
119 arrays.
120
121 Changes Prior to 2.0
122 - Support assembling from byte-swapped superblocks
123 metadata type "0.swap" and --update=byteorder
124 - write-mostly and write-behind support for raid1.
125 - Support --name= and 'name=' config entry for identifying
126 arrays be name.
127 - RAID10 in man pages.
128 - Lot of minor manpage updates
129
130 Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-3 release
131 - Assorted fixes for multiple bugs...
132 - Add test suite
133
134 Changes Prior to 1.12.0 release
135 Several of these are backported from the Debian package
136 - Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat.
137 - Document --size=max option for --grow
138 - Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
139 - --stop --scan repeatly cycles until no more progress can be made
140 so that stack devices are stopped properly
141 - Minor type rationalisation for ident->uuid - now always 'int[]'
142 - Fix type in online help for --grow (was -F, now -G)
143 - Allow --auto command line option to set default auto=
144 value when running "--assemble --scan". Previously
145 --auto was ignored if --scan was given
146 - Fix a few type casts
147 - Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard
148 - Fix rounding errors in human_size()
149 - Fix silly example in mdadm.conf-examples
150 - When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names
151 - Suppress listing of devices= in --brief output of -D or -E,
152 unless -v is given (-vv gives the old behaviour with -Dsv).
153 This is because the device list can change and so is not a
154 stable aspect of the array
155 - Allow --force with --grow so '-Gfn1' works (on raid1)
156 - Replace sprintf calls with snprintf (to quiet diet-libc)
157 - Add man page for mdassemble
158 - Fix compilation with tinyc
159
160 Changes Prior to 1.11.0 release
161 - Fix embarassing bug which causes --add to always fail.
162
163 Changes Prior to 1.10.0 release
164 - Fix bug with --config=partitions
165 - Open sub-devices with O_EXCL to detect if already in use
166 - Make sure superblock updates are flushed directly to disk.
167
168 Changes Prior to 2.0-devel-1 release
169 - Support for version-1 superblock. See --metadata option.
170 - Support for bitmap based intent logging.
171 - Minor fixes.
172
173 Changes Prior to 1.9.0 release
174 - Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
175 - Minor manpage updates
176 - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
177 - --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
178 the appropriate major/minor number for them.
179 - Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of
180 "foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
181 "f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
182 - Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of
183 "MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
184 on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
185 - Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
186 - Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
187 it to find devices, rather than only once.
188 - Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
189 order in which arrays are stopped.
190 - Improve some error messages.
191 - Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
192 mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
193 works.
194 - Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
195 - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
196
197 Changes Prior to 1.8.0 release
198 - Makefile cleanup from Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
199 - --pid-file (-i) to set a pid file to use with --monitor --daemonise
200 - Fix typo in mdadm man page
201 - Fix coredump when "-s" used with no config file present.
202 - Support new "faulty" personality which can inject synthetic
203 faults. (Not in kernel.org yet at 1Nov2004)
204 - Support raid0/linear on devices > 2 Terabytes
205 - Make sure raid6 resyncs when created with one missing device
206
207 Changes Prior to 1.7.0 release
208 - Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
209 kernel supports it. Not documented yet.
210 - Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
211 - Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
212 reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
213 - Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it
214 anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
215 - Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
216 - Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
217 array is assembled.
218 - Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
219 Not documented yet.
220 - --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
221 even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
222
223 Changes Prior to 1.6.0 release
224 - Device name given in -Eb is determined by examining /dev rather
225 than assuming /dev/md%d
226 - Fix bug in --monitor where an array could be held open an so
227 could not be stopped without killing mdadm.
228 - Add --grow mode. Currently only --size and --raid-disks can be
229 changed. Both require kernel support which, at the time of
230 writing, is not in a release kernel yet.
231 - Don't print out "errors" or "no-errors" in -D and -E, as the bit
232 is never set or used.
233 - Use md event notification in 2.6.??? to make --monitor mode
234 respond instantly to events.
235 - Add --auto= option and auto= configfile entry to tell mdadm to
236 create device files as needed. This is particularly useful
237 with partitioned arrays where the major device number can change.
238 - When generating --brief listing, if the standard name doesn't
239 exist, search /dev for one rather than using a temp name.
240 - Allow --build to build raid1 and multipath arrays.
241 - Add "--assume-clean" for Create and Build, particularly for raid1
242 Note: this is dangerous. Only use it if you are certain.
243 - Fix bug so that Rebuild status monitoring works again.
244 - Add "degraded" and "recovering" options to the "Status:"
245 entry for --detail
246
247 Changes Prior to 1.5.0 release
248 - new commands "mdassemble" which is a stripped-down equivalent of
249 "mdadm -As", that can be compiled with dietlibc.
250 Thanks to Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>.
251 It can be using in an initramfs or initrd.
252 - Fix compiling error with BLKGETSIZE64 and some signed/unsigned
253 comparison warnings.
254 - Add Rebuild Status (% complete) to --detail output.
255 - Support "--monitor --test" which will generate a test alert
256 for each array once, to test notification paths.
257 - Generate RebuildFinished event when rebuild finishes.
258 - Support for raid6 as found in 2.6.2 - thanks to
259 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
260 - Support partitioned md arrays with a different major number and
261 naming scheme (md_dX in /proc/mdstat, /dev/md/dXpY in /dev).
262
263 Changes Prior to 1.4.0 release
264 - Document fact that creating a raid5 array really creates a
265 degraded array with a spare.
266 - Add "spares=" tag to config file and generate it wit --detail and
267 --examine
268 - Add "SparesMissing" event when --monitor first sees an array and
269 it doesn't have the enough spare devices.
270 - Add --update=summaries for --assemble to update summary
271 information in superblock, and correct other inconsistancies in
272 the superblock.
273 - Add --test option to --detail to set a meaningful exit status.
274
275 Changes Prior to 1.3.0 release
276 - Make 'size' and unsigned long in Create to allow creation of
277 larger arrays.
278 - Explicitly flag spare devices as 'spare' in --detail and --examine
279 output. Previously they simply had no flags lists.
280 - Make MailCmd (for monitor) configurable in Makefile, and default
281 to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t". Also split out the warning related
282 flags into CWFLAGS for easier build configurability.
283 - Minor bugfix in Manage code.
284 - --monitor now notices and reports degraded arrays at startup using
285 "DegradedArray" event, and also has a --oneshot option to only
286 report DegradedArrays, and then exit.
287 - Small man-page clarification w.r.t. raid levels and raid4 in
288 particular.
289 - Disallow creation of arrays with only one device as this is
290 probably a mistake. --force will override this check.
291 - Correct some misleading documentation in the "mdadm --create --help"
292 message.
293 - Ignore chunksize if raid1 or multipath.
294 - Explicit statement in man page that raid-disks cannot be changed
295 after array is created.
296 - Improve message when attempting to start an array with
297 insufficient devices. Instead of required the array to be full,
298 we only require it has as many active devices as last time.
299
300 Changes Prior to 1.2.0 release
301 - Fix bug where --daemonise required an argument.
302 - In --assemble --verbose, print appropriate message if device is
303 not in devices= list
304 - Updated mdadm.conf.5 to reflect fact that device= takes wildcards
305 - Typos: componenet -> component
306 - Reduce size of "--help" message put excess into "--help-options"
307 - Fix bug introduced when MD_SB_DISKS dependancy removed, and which
308 caused spares not be assembled properly.
309 - Print appropriate message if --monitor --scan decides not to
310 monitor anything.
311 Changes Prior to 1.1.0 release
312 - add --deamonise flag for --monitor - forks and prints pid to stdout
313 - Fix bug so we REALLY clear dirty flag with -Af
314 - -Db now prints a 'devices=' word for each array.
315 - "mdadm -A /dev/md0" will get info from configfile, even without scan
316 - When assembling multipath arrays, ignore devices which are flagged
317 as having errors.
318 - take --super-minor=dev to mean "use the minor number of the mddev
319 being assembled.
320 - take --config=none to mean "completely ignore config file"
321 - Make --monitor require --scan or a device list.
322 Changes Prior to 1.0.9 release
323 - Documentation updates including kernel parameters documented
324 in md.4
325 - --assemble --force for raid4/5 will mark clean, needed for 2.5
326 - --detail prints out the events counter as well
327 - flush device before reading superblock to be sure to get
328 current data
329 - added mdadm.static target to makefile for static linking
330 - --monitor was ignoring /dev/md0 due to off-by-one error
331 - Fix assorted typos
332 - Fix printing of Gibibytes - calc was wrong.
333 - Fix printing of Array Size in --detail when very big.
334 - --monitor no longer tries to work for raid0 or linear as these
335 have nothing to be monitored.
336 - The word 'partitions' on a DEVICE line will cause all partitions
337 listed in /proc/partitions to be considered
338 - If the config file is called 'partitions' then it will be treated
339 as though it contained exactly 'device partitions' so e.g.
340 mdadm -Ebsc partitions
341 will find all raid partitions easily.
342 - successfully assemble multipath devices by ignoring raid_disk
343 value from superblock (it is always the same).
344 - --assemble not tied to MD_SB_DISKS limit quite so much
345 - Support compiling with tcc
346 - Support compiling with uclibc - just skip scan of /dev
347 - Add --update= option for Assemble mode. Either sparc2.2
348 or super-minor updates are possible. See mdadm.8
349
350 Changes Prior to 1.0.1 release
351 - Round off MB/GiB etc values instead of round down.
352 - Add --sparc2.2 option to examine to shift superblock around
353 and --sparc2.2update to rewrite the superblock
354 - Fix assorted typos in online help
355
356 Changes Prior to 1.0.0 release
357 - Allow --config with Misc mode (for --examine --scan)
358 - Add $(CXFLAGS) to end of CFLAGS in makefile
359 - When making an N disk raid5 array, the Nth drive
360 is moved to the end of the array as a spare rather than
361 being shifted up one place. This means that when the
362 kernel builds onto the last spare and inserts it,
363 the devices will be in the expected order.
364 - Man page improvements
365 Changes Prior to 0.8.2 release
366 - Correct spelling of persist[ae]nce/persist[ae]nt.
367 - Change "disk" to "device" in options and config file
368 - convert array size to "long long" *before* shift-left in -D and -Q
369
370 Changes Prior to 0.8.1 release
371 - Add "INSTALL" file.
372 - Fix some "i" variables that were not being set properly
373 - Initialise minsize and maxsize so that compilers don't complain.
374 - Tidy up Makefile and mdadm.spec installations
375 - Add "multipath" to documentation of valid levels
376
377 Changes Prior to 0.8 release
378 - Fix another bug in Assemble.c due to confusing 'i' with 'j'
379 - Minimal, untested, support for multipath
380 - re-write of argument parsing to have more coherent modes,
381 - add --query,-Q option
382 - Update mdadm.8 to reflect arg processing change and --query
383 - Change "long" to "unsigned long" for device sizes
384 - Handle "mailaddr" and "program" lines in config file for follow/scan mode.
385 - --follow --scan will exit if no program or mail found
386 - Add MAILADDR and PROGRAM to mdadm.conf-example
387 - Spell check man pages
388 - consistently use "component devices" instead of "subdevices"
389 - Make -Wall -Werror really work and fix lots of errors.
390 - --detail and --stop can have --scan which chooses devices from /proc/mdstat
391 - --monitor detects 20% changes in resync, failed spares,
392 disappearing arrays,
393 - --monitor --scan will automatically add any devices found in /proc/mdstat
394 - --monitor will move spares between arrays with same spare-group if necessary
395 - Documentation for Monitor Mode
396 - --query notes if the array containing the given device is active or not
397 - Finished md.4 man page.
398
399 Changes Prior to 0.7.2 release
400 - mdadm.spec updates and ifdef BLKGETSIZE64 from Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
401 - more mdadm.spec updates from Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com>
402 - make directory for mdadm.conf configurable in Makefile
403 - Finished mdadm.conf.5. Removed details of conf file from
404 mdadm.8 leaving a reference to mdadm.conf.5.
405 - Fix bug in Assemble.c, thanks to Junaid Rizvi <domdev@sat.net.pk>
406 - Get --assemble --force to make sure old major/minor numbers are
407 consistant, as md.c worries about this :-(
408
409
410 Changes Prior to 0.7.1 release
411 - update mdadm.spec
412 - use BLKGETSIZE64 if available for array size
413 - give human readable as GiB/MiB and GB and MB, with 2 decimal point precision
414 - Only warn about size variation for raid1/4/5.
415 - Started md.4 man page
416 - Started mdadm.conf.5 man page
417
418 Changes Prior to 0.7 release
419
420 - Fix makefile to install binary at /sbin and not /sbin/sbin
421 Also install man page.
422 - Add --zero-superblock based on --destroywithextremeprejudice
423 from Dale Stephenson <steph@snapserver.com>
424 - change name to mdadm. It is palandromic, and much nicer to pronouce.
425
426 Changes Prior to 0.6 release
427
428 - Remove the limit on the number of device names that can be
429 given on the command line.
430 - Fix bug in --assemble --force where it would only update a
431 single superblock.
432 - Fix bogus printing of big numbers not being block devices
433 when given names of devices that don't exist.
434 - When --assemble --force, consider superblocks with an event
435 count that is 1 behind as out-of-date. Normally they are
436 considered up-to-date (as the kernel assumes this too).
437 - When marking drives as not-failed in the superblock,
438 we also mark them as ACTIVE and SYNC.
439 - Don't start arrays for which not all drives are available unless:
440 --scan which implies that all drives were found automatically
441 --run which means the user knows what they want
442 --force which means that we are fixing something broken
443 - Make sure all device numbers passed as 3rd arg of ioctl
444 are passed as unsigned lock, so that it works on SPARC
445 - If HOT_ADD_DISK failes for -a, then only try ADD_NEW_DISK
446 if we cannot read from the array, i.e. if the array is
447 not started yet.
448 - man page update
449 - Taught Examine to handle --scan. It examines all devices listed
450 on DEVICE lines in the config file.
451 - Added --brief (-b) flag for Examine and Detail to print out
452 and mdctl.conf compatible description with uuid=, level=,
453 disks= and - for Examine - devices=
454 --examine --brief collects all devices the make the one array and
455 list them as one entry.
456 - Added level= and disks= options to ARRAY lines in config files
457 so --brief output could be used as-is.
458 - Make parity style ({left,right}-{,a}symmetric) consistantly use -,
459 never _.
460 - Add "Array Size" to --detail output
461 - Change "Size" to "Device Size" and exclude from Detail of arrays
462 that do not have a consistent device size.
463 - Add Human readable MiB or GiB value on size lines of Detail and Examine
464 - --assemble --scan doesn't complain about active drives
465 - require number of spares given in -x to be listed.
466 - Made --build actually work.
467 Changes Prior to 0.5 release
468
469 --assemble:
470 spare drives are handled properly.
471
472 --force can be used to recover from 2-drive failures on RAID5
473 If you belive that /dev/hda1 /dev/hdb1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hdd1 should
474 make a raid5 array, but it has experienced multiple failures and
475 wont start, then
476
477 mdctl --assemble --force /dev/md0 /dev/hd[abcd]1
478
479 Should update the superblock on the newest failed drive and
480 restart the array in degraded mode. You should then remove the
481 remaining failed drive and re-add it (if you are happy that it
482 might work).
483
484 Ofcourse whenever you have a 2-drive failure, you have a risk
485 of corruption in data that hasn't be changed for a long time. So
486 this doesn't give you your array back all nice and happy, but it
487 does allow you to recover data that might not be corrupt.
488
489 More flexibility in identifying a RAID array in the mdctl.conf
490 e.g.
491 array /dev/md4 super-minor=4
492
493 assembles /dev/md4 from all devices found that have a raid
494 superblock that says the minor number of the array is 4.
495 If the blocks with the right minor number do not all have the
496 same UUID, an error is flags and no assembly happens.
497
498 array /dev/md3 devices=/dev/hd[abc]2
499
500 Assembles /dev/md3 drom /dev/hda2 /dev/hdb2 and/dev/hdc2. All
501 devices must exist and have raid superblock with the same uuid.
502
503 If two identity specifiers are used, only devices that match all
504 of them are considered, so
505
506 array /dev/md2 devices=/dev/hd?2 super-minor=2
507
508 will assemble /dev/md2 using all /dev/hd?2 devices which have a
509 raid superblock with minor number 2.
510
511 --create:
512 When listing devices for --create, the word "missing" can be
513 used to indicate that the respective slot does not have a
514 working drive currently. This is similar to the "failed-disk"
515 directive in mkraid/raidtab.
516 e.g.
517 mdctl --create --level=5 -raid-disks=4 --spare-disks=2
518 /dev/md0 /dev/sda /dev/sdb missing /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde
519
520 will create a raid5 array with the third slot empty, and two
521 spares.
522
523 By default, raid5 arrays are created with the last slot empty
524 and drive listed for the last slot added as a spare. If a
525 "missing" slot is given, or if --force is given, then --create
526 does exactly what you ask and doesn't try to be clever.
527
528
529 --follow / --monitor:
530
531 This is a new mode. I couldn't stop my self from picking a name
532 starting with F (as current modes start A,B,C,D,E) but I
533 relented and provided an alternate name that is somewhat more
534 meaningful.
535
536 In this mode, mdctl does not exit, but runs continuously and
537 periodically polls all the md devices to see if they have had
538 any interested state change.
539 The changes that it currently notices are:
540 Fail - an active disc fails
541 FailSpare - a spare, that was presumably being build, fails
542 ActiveSpare - a spare becomes active, presumably after a rebuild.
543
544 Options:
545 --mail mailaddress - send Email on any Fail* event
546 --program program - run the program on any event.
547 Args are: eventname mddevice subdevice(if-known)
548 --delay seconds - change from the default 60second pause
549 between polls.
550
551 I plan to add functionality to this mode to allow sharing of
552 spare drives. If an array is marks "spare-group=fred", and it
553 has a failed drive and no spares, and if some other array is
554 also "spare-group=fred" and it has no failed drives, but does
555 have a spare drive that is big enough, the spare will be moved
556 to the first array.
557
558 I also have the idea of adding a --grow mode which will re-organise
559 the data on an N disk raid0/4/5 array to be on an N+M disk array.
560 I have no concrete plans for this though.
561
562 I got rid of the "v" in the archive file name, and include the
563 version number in the directory created by the archive.
564
565 There is now a man page and mdctl.spec (for rpm) thanks to
566 Danilo Godec <danci@agenda.si>.
567
568 Ofcourse, the man page is now out of date and despite being based on
569 the --help output, is not wholy correct. After I get --follow
570 working properly, I plan to revise the various documentation and/or
571 the code to make sure the two match.