-Changed Prior to 0.8 release
+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>.
+ It can be using in an initramfs or initrd.
+ - Fix compiling error with BLKGETSIZE64 and some signed/unsigned
+ comparison warnings.
+ - Add Rebuild Status (% complete) to --detail output.
+ - Support "--monitor --test" which will generate a test alert
+ for each array once, to test notification paths.
+ - Generate RebuildFinished event when rebuild finishes.
+ - Support for raid6 as found in 2.6.2 - thanks to
+ H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
+ - Support partitioned md arrays with a different major number and
+ naming scheme (md_dX in /proc/mdstat, /dev/md/dXpY in /dev).
+
+Changes Prior to 1.4.0 release
+ - Document fact that creating a raid5 array really creates a
+ degraded array with a spare.
+ - Add "spares=" tag to config file and generate it wit --detail and
+ --examine
+ - Add "SparesMissing" event when --monitor first sees an array and
+ it doesn't have the enough spare devices.
+ - Add --update=summaries for --assemble to update summary
+ information in superblock, and correct other inconsistancies in
+ the superblock.
+ - Add --test option to --detail to set a meaningful exit status.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.3.0 release
+ - Make 'size' and unsigned long in Create to allow creation of
+ larger arrays.
+ - Explicitly flag spare devices as 'spare' in --detail and --examine
+ output. Previously they simply had no flags lists.
+ - Make MailCmd (for monitor) configurable in Makefile, and default
+ to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t". Also split out the warning related
+ flags into CWFLAGS for easier build configurability.
+ - Minor bugfix in Manage code.
+ - --monitor now notices and reports degraded arrays at startup using
+ "DegradedArray" event, and also has a --oneshot option to only
+ report DegradedArrays, and then exit.
+ - Small man-page clarification w.r.t. raid levels and raid4 in
+ particular.
+ - Disallow creation of arrays with only one device as this is
+ probably a mistake. --force will override this check.
+ - Correct some misleading documentation in the "mdadm --create --help"
+ message.
+ - Ignore chunksize if raid1 or multipath.
+ - Explicit statement in man page that raid-disks cannot be changed
+ after array is created.
+ - Improve message when attempting to start an array with
+ insufficient devices. Instead of required the array to be full,
+ we only require it has as many active devices as last time.
+
+Changes Prior to 1.2.0 release
+ - Fix bug where --daemonise required an argument.
+ - In --assemble --verbose, print appropriate message if device is
+ not in devices= list
+ - Updated mdadm.conf.5 to reflect fact that device= takes wildcards
+ - Typos: componenet -> component
+ - Reduce size of "--help" message put excess into "--help-options"
+ - Fix bug introduced when MD_SB_DISKS dependancy removed, and which
+ caused spares not be assembled properly.
+ - Print appropriate message if --monitor --scan decides not to
+ monitor anything.
+Changes Prior to 1.1.0 release
+ - add --deamonise flag for --monitor - forks and prints pid to stdout
+ - Fix bug so we REALLY clear dirty flag with -Af
+ - -Db now prints a 'devices=' word for each array.
+ - "mdadm -A /dev/md0" will get info from configfile, even without scan
+ - When assembling multipath arrays, ignore devices which are flagged
+ as having errors.
+ - take --super-minor=dev to mean "use the minor number of the mddev
+ being assembled.
+ - take --config=none to mean "completely ignore config file"
+ - Make --monitor require --scan or a device list.
+Changes Prior to 1.0.9 release
+ - Documentation updates including kernel parameters documented
+ in md.4
+ - --assemble --force for raid4/5 will mark clean, needed for 2.5
+ - --detail prints out the events counter as well
+ - flush device before reading superblock to be sure to get
+ current data
+ - added mdadm.static target to makefile for static linking
+ - --monitor was ignoring /dev/md0 due to off-by-one error
+ - Fix assorted typos
+ - Fix printing of Gibibytes - calc was wrong.
+ - Fix printing of Array Size in --detail when very big.
+ - --monitor no longer tries to work for raid0 or linear as these
+ have nothing to be monitored.
+ - The word 'partitions' on a DEVICE line will cause all partitions
+ listed in /proc/partitions to be considered
+ - If the config file is called 'partitions' then it will be treated
+ as though it contained exactly 'device partitions' so e.g.
+ mdadm -Ebsc partitions
+ will find all raid partitions easily.
+ - successfully assemble multipath devices by ignoring raid_disk
+ value from superblock (it is always the same).
+ - --assemble not tied to MD_SB_DISKS limit quite so much
+ - Support compiling with tcc
+ - Support compiling with uclibc - just skip scan of /dev
+ - Add --update= option for Assemble mode. Either sparc2.2
+ or super-minor updates are possible. See mdadm.8
+
+Changes Prior to 1.0.1 release
+ - Round off MB/GiB etc values instead of round down.
+ - Add --sparc2.2 option to examine to shift superblock around
+ and --sparc2.2update to rewrite the superblock
+ - Fix assorted typos in online help
+
+Changes Prior to 1.0.0 release
+ - Allow --config with Misc mode (for --examine --scan)
+ - Add $(CXFLAGS) to end of CFLAGS in makefile
+ - When making an N disk raid5 array, the Nth drive
+ is moved to the end of the array as a spare rather than
+ being shifted up one place. This means that when the
+ kernel builds onto the last spare and inserts it,
+ the devices will be in the expected order.
+ - Man page improvements
+Changes Prior to 0.8.2 release
+ - Correct spelling of persist[ae]nce/persist[ae]nt.
+ - Change "disk" to "device" in options and config file
+ - convert array size to "long long" *before* shift-left in -D and -Q
+
+Changes Prior to 0.8.1 release
+ - Add "INSTALL" file.
+ - Fix some "i" variables that were not being set properly
+ - Initialise minsize and maxsize so that compilers don't complain.
+ - Tidy up Makefile and mdadm.spec installations
+ - Add "multipath" to documentation of valid levels
+
+Changes Prior to 0.8 release
+ - Fix another bug in Assemble.c due to confusing 'i' with 'j'
+ - Minimal, untested, support for multipath
+ - re-write of argument parsing to have more coherent modes,
+ - add --query,-Q option
+ - Update mdadm.8 to reflect arg processing change and --query
+ - Change "long" to "unsigned long" for device sizes
+ - Handle "mailaddr" and "program" lines in config file for follow/scan mode.
+ - --follow --scan will exit if no program or mail found
+ - Add MAILADDR and PROGRAM to mdadm.conf-example
+ - Spell check man pages
+ - consistently use "component devices" instead of "subdevices"
+ - Make -Wall -Werror really work and fix lots of errors.
+ - --detail and --stop can have --scan which chooses devices from /proc/mdstat
+ - --monitor detects 20% changes in resync, failed spares,
+ disappearing arrays,
+ - --monitor --scan will automatically add any devices found in /proc/mdstat
+ - --monitor will move spares between arrays with same spare-group if necessary
+ - Documentation for Monitor Mode
+ - --query notes if the array containing the given device is active or not
+ - Finished md.4 man page.
+
+Changes Prior to 0.7.2 release
+ - mdadm.spec updates and ifdef BLKGETSIZE64 from Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it
+ - more mdadm.spec updates from Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@linuxweasel.com>
+ - make directory for mdadm.conf configurable in Makefile
+ - Finished mdadm.conf.5. Removed details of conf file from
+ mdadm.8 leaving a reference to mdadm.conf.5.
+ - Fix bug in Assemble.c, thanks to Junaid Rizvi <domdev@sat.net.pk>
+ - Get --assemble --force to make sure old major/minor numbers are
+ consistant, as md.c worries about this :-(
+
+
+Changes Prior to 0.7.1 release
- update mdadm.spec
- use BLKGETSIZE64 if available for array size
- give human readable as GiB/MiB and GB and MB, with 2 decimal point precision
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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