-Changes Prior to this release
+Changes Prior to 1.10.0 release
+ - Fix bug with --config=partitions
+ - Open sub-devices with O_EXCL to detect if already in use
+
+Changes Prior to 1.9.0 release
+ - Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
+ - Minor manpage updates
+ - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
+ - --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
+ the appropriate major/minor number for them.
+ - Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of
+ "foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
+ "f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
+ - Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of
+ "MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
+ on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
+ - Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
+ - Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
+ it to find devices, rather than only once.
+ - Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
+ order in which arrays are stopped.
+ - Improve some error messages.
+ - Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
+ mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
+ works.
+ - Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.8.0 release
+ - Makefile cleanup from Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
+ - --pid-file (-i) to set a pid file to use with --monitor --daemonise
+ - Fix typo in mdadm man page
+ - Fix coredump when "-s" used with no config file present.
+ - Support new "faulty" personality which can inject synthetic
+ faults. (Not in kernel.org yet at 1Nov2004)
+ - Support raid0/linear on devices > 2 Terabytes
+ - Make sure raid6 resyncs when created with one missing device
+
+Changes Prior to 1.7.0 release
+ - Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
+ kernel supports it. Not documented yet.
+ - Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
+ - Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
+ reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
+ - Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it
+ anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
+ - Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
+ - Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
+ array is assembled.
+ - Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
+ Not documented yet.
+ - --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
+ even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
+
+Changes Prior to 1.6.0 release
+ - Device name given in -Eb is determined by examining /dev rather
+ than assuming /dev/md%d
+ - Fix bug in --monitor where an array could be held open an so
+ could not be stopped without killing mdadm.
+ - Add --grow mode. Currently only --size and --raid-disks can be
+ changed. Both require kernel support which, at the time of
+ writing, is not in a release kernel yet.
+ - Don't print out "errors" or "no-errors" in -D and -E, as the bit
+ is never set or used.
+ - Use md event notification in 2.6.??? to make --monitor mode
+ respond instantly to events.
+ - Add --auto= option and auto= configfile entry to tell mdadm to
+ create device files as needed. This is particularly useful
+ with partitioned arrays where the major device number can change.
+ - When generating --brief listing, if the standard name doesn't
+ exist, search /dev for one rather than using a temp name.
+ - Allow --build to build raid1 and multipath arrays.
+ - Add "--assume-clean" for Create and Build, particularly for raid1
+ Note: this is dangerous. Only use it if you are certain.
+ - Fix bug so that Rebuild status monitoring works again.
+ - Add "degraded" and "recovering" options to the "Status:"
+ entry for --detail
+
+Changes Prior to 1.5.0 release
- new commands "mdassemble" which is a stripped-down equivalent of
"mdadm -As", that can be compiled with dietlibc.
Thanks to Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>.
the --help output, is not wholy correct. After I get --follow
working properly, I plan to revise the various documentation and/or
the code to make sure the two match.
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