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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4-pre1 - development release for testing only
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I am somewhat cautious in announcing the availability of
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mdadm version 2.4-pre1
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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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pre-release 2.4-pre1 contains support for growing a raid5 array i.e.
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adding extra drives and restriping the whole arrays.
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This requires a kernel more recent than 2.6.16-rc6-mm2.
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During a restripe, there is a crtical section at the start where a
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system crash can leave the contents of the raid5 unrecoverable. This
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version of mdadm will backup that section, and can restore it when
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reassembling the array after a crash.
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Have fun, but use it carefully and report any problems.
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NeilBrown 20th March 2006
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