Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 2.6.2 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 2.6.2 adds a few minor bug fixes to 2.6.1 Changelog Entries: - --fail detached and --remove faulty can be used to fail and remove devices that are no longer physically present. - --export option for --detail or present information in a format that can be processed by udev. - fix internal bitmap allocation problems with v1.1, v1.2 metadata. - --help now goes to stdout so you can direct it to a pager. - Various manpage updates. - Make "--grow --add" for linear arrays really work. - --auto-detect to trigger in-kernel autodetect. - Make return code for "--detail --test" more reliable. Missing devices as well as failed devices cause an error. Development of mdadm is sponsored by SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. NeilBrown 21st May 2007