Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.5.5 It is available at the usual places: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and countrycode=xx. http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ and via git at git://neil.brown.name/mdadm http://neil.brown.name/git?p=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 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4. Hopefully the last before 2.6. Changelog Entries: - Don't #include linux/blkpg.h as that isn't safe. Just include the content literally. - Reduce maximum bitmap usage when working with bitmap files, so that a only single-page allocations are made, even on 64bit hosts with 4K pages. - Close stray fd in mdassemble so that it can assemble stacked devices - If mdassemble finds an array already assembled, it marks it read-write. - Remove error in md_open if array is already active. This isn't needed and gets in the ways if an array was created e.g. in initramfs, but device doesn't yet exist in /dev. - When --assemble --scan is run, if all arrays that could be found have already been started, don't report an error. - Fix a couple of bugs related to raid10 and the new 'offset' layout. - Improve error message when a wrong '--update' option is given. Development of mdadm is sponsored by SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. NeilBrown 23rd October 2006