2006-06-16 02:54:14 +02:00
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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I am pleased to announce the availability of
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mdadm version 2.5.1
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It is available at the usual places:
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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and
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http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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and via git at
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git://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
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mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
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device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
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known as Software RAID arrays.
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Release 2.5.1 adds multiple minor updates including a couple of bugfixes.
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Changelog Entries:
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- Various fixes for gcc warnings
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- uclibc warnings
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- Makefile improvements for static linking/intalling
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- Makefile uninstall target
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- Really fix return status of --examine
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- Typos
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- Byteorder stuff (again)
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- Don't try to create devices with --manage or --grow
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- allow default metadata (superblock) type to be specified
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in mdadm.conf
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- Get --stop to list devices stopped but honour --quiet
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- remove libssl dependency
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- Avoid some misdetection of overlapping partitions
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- Fix memory leak in --monitor mode
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 16th June 2006
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