Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.5.1 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ and via git at git://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also known as Software RAID arrays. Release 2.5.1 adds multiple minor updates including a couple of bugfixes. Changelog Entries: - Various fixes for gcc warnings - uclibc warnings - Makefile improvements for static linking/intalling - Makefile uninstall target - Really fix return status of --examine - Typos - Byteorder stuff (again) - Don't try to create devices with --manage or --grow - allow default metadata (superblock) type to be specified in mdadm.conf - Get --stop to list devices stopped but honour --quiet - remove libssl dependency - Avoid some misdetection of overlapping partitions - Fix memory leak in --monitor mode Development of mdadm is sponsored by SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. NeilBrown 16th June 2006