X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ChangeLog;h=adf622c8876b9ef8af9d644b55278136aa39c3b2;hp=46af0ee1a91b76d13586daa92a8483d2d1117d7c;hb=89a10d84cb76492b7d8ea96d0a206b54702bcaff;hpb=757234466509aae6221c2cb96e8366f41ba7e532 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 46af0ee1..adf622c8 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,84 @@ -Changes Prior to this release +Changed Prior to this release + - --readwrite can be used with --re-add to clear the writemostly + flag. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.7 release + - Avoid NULL reference calling free_super and elsewhere. + - Remove stray semicolon (Causes compile error with gcc-2.95) + - Fix autoassemble for stack arrays. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.6 release + - "make everything" now make mdassemble.auto + - fix compile problem with mdassemble.auto + - Update FAQ URLs in man page again. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.5 release + - Avoid segfault when parsing /proc/mdstat with auto-read-only + arrays. + - Fix problem with failing to add devices to v.large (>4TB) arrays, + cause by problems with device-size overflow. + - For v0.90 superblocks, print the 'Events' count as a real count, + not 2 numbers separated by a dot. + - Updates some URLs in the man page. + - Allow creation of a RAID6 with exactly one missing device. + - Use LOG_PID for syslog, so you get the pid of mdadm in the log + files. + - --export now works with --examine too (not just --detail) + - Improve auto-creation of device special file when using + --incremental + - Simple locking for --incremental so mdadm doesn't get confused + when run concurrently with itself. + - Make --incremental cope better with arrays that are being reshaped. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.4 release + - Make "--create --auto=mdp" work for non-standard device names. + - Fix restarting of a 'reshape' if it was stopped in the middle. + - Fix a segfault when using v1 superblock. + - Make --write-mostly effective when re-adding a device to an array. + - Various minor fixes + +Changes Prior to 2.6.3 release + - allow --write-behind to be set for --grow. + - When adding new disk to an array, don't reserve so much bitmap + space that the disk cannot store the required data. (Needed when + 1.x array was created with older mdadm). + - When adding a drive that was a little too small, we did not get + the correct error message. + - Make sure that if --assemble find an array in the critical region + of a reshape, and cannot find the critical data to restart the + reshape, it gives an error message. + - Fix segfault with '--detail --export' and non-persistent + superblocks. + - Various manpage updates. + - Improved 'raid4' support (--assemble, --monitor) + - Option parsing fixes w.r.t -a + - Interpret "--assemble --metadata=1" to allow any version 1.x + metadata, and be more specific in the "metadata=" message printed + with --examine --brief + - Fix spare migration in --monitor. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.2 release + - --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. + +Changes Prior to 2.6.1 release + - --monitor was producing some meaningless warnings due to a bug. + - Fix some compiler warnings. + - Fully support --grow for raid6. If a reshape crashed during the + critical period, mdadm wouldn't restore the Q information + properly. + - Update documentation for --grow. + +Changes Prior to 2.6 release - Fixed UUID printing in "--detail --brief" for version1 metadata. - --update=resync did exactly the wrong thing for version1 metadata. It caused a resync to not happen, rather than to happen. @@ -10,6 +90,26 @@ Changes Prior to this release can change size. - Default to --auto=yes so the array devices with 'standard' names get created automatically, as this is almost always what is wanted. + - Give useful message if raid4/5/6 cannot be started because it is + not clean and is also degraded. + - Increase raid456 stripe cache size if needed to --grow the array. + The setting used unfortunately requires intimate knowledge of the + kernel, and it not reset when the reshape finishes. + - Change 'Device Size' to 'Used Dev Size' because it only shows how + much of each device is actually used, not how big they are. + - --wait or -W will wait for resync activity to finish on the given + devices. + - Fix some problems with --update=uuid and add a test. + - If two drives in a raid5 disappear at the same time, then "-Af" + will add them both in rather than just one and forcing the array + to 'clean'. This is slightly safer in some cases. + - Check device is large enough before hot-add: this improves quality + of error message. + - Don't hold md device open for so long in --monitor mode - map_dev + can be slow and interferes with trying to stop the array. + - Support --uuid= with --create to choose your own UUID. + - New major more "--incremental" for incremental assemble of arrays, + intended for use with udev. Changes Prior to 2.5.6 release - Fix bug which meant "bitmap=xxx" in mdadm.conf was not handled