Release 2.6.8

ANNOUNCE-2.6.8

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.8 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of
+   mdadm version 2.6.8
+
+It is available at the usual places:
+   countrycode=xx.
+   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+and via git at
+   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
+   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
+
+mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+known as Software RAID arrays.
+
+Release 2.6.8 contains various bug fixes and minor enhancements.
+It is possibly that 2.6.8 will be the last release in the 2.x
+series and very likely that there will never be a 2.7.
+Hopefully 3.0 will be released soon making future development
+of 2.6.x unnecessary.  However if a need does arise for a 2.6.9
+it will be considered.
+
+Changelog Entries:
+    fix add_dev() handling of broken links
+    Assemble: allow --force to work even when event counts are 0.
+    mapfile:  fix bug in testing for /var/run/mdadm/
+    Incremental:  change precedence order for autof setting.
+    Adjust major number testing to allow for extended minor number in 2.6.28
+    Incremental:  allow assembly of foreign array.
+    Incremental:  fix setting of 'autof' flag.
+    Fix --incremental assembly of partitions arrays.
+    Fix NULL pointer oops
+    Fix bad metadata formatting
+    Allow WRITEMOSTLY to be cleared on --readd using --readwrite.
+    Remove .UR .UE macros from man page because the don't do what we want.
+    Grow: Fix linear-growth when devices are not all the same size.
+    Improve reporting of layout for raid10.
+    Manage: allow adding device that is just large enough to v1.x array.
+    Cosmetic cleanup of some messages.
+    Clean up usage of open()
+    Add support for distribution specific build extensions
+    Fix confusing usage in md.4 man page.
+    Describe the HOMEHOST entry in the mdadm.conf man page.
+    Some more cleanup of tests.
+    Add test for stoping and restarting a raid5 reshape.
+    Add "bitmap=" to "--detail --brief" output when relevant.
+    Improve error message when mdadm fails to stop an array.
+    Couple more man page fixes
+    Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata.
+    Italic/bold fixes in man pages.
+    Fix bug in forced assemble.
+    Fix an error when assembling arrays that are in the middle of a reshape.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by
+ SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
+
+NeilBrown  28th November 2008

ReadMe.c

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 #include "mdadm.h"
 
-char Version[] = Name " - v2.6.7 - 6th June 2008\n";
+char Version[] = Name " - v2.6.8 - 28th November 2008\n";
 
 /*
  * File: ReadMe.c

inventory

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-2.6.4
 ANNOUNCE-2.6.5
 ANNOUNCE-2.6.6
 ANNOUNCE-2.6.7
+ANNOUNCE-2.6.8
 Assemble.c
 bitmap.c
 bitmap.h
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ tests/06update-uuid
 tests/06wrmostly
 tests/07autoassemble
 tests/07autodetect
+tests/07reshape5intr
 tests/07testreshape5
 tests/check
 tests/testdev

mdadm.8

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\"   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 .\"   (at your option) any later version.
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.6.7
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.6.8
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka

mdadm.spec

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary:     mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays)
 Name:        mdadm
-Version:     2.6.7
+Version:     2.6.8
 Release:     1
 Source:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tgz
 URL:         http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm

mdassemble.8

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v2.6.7
+.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v2.6.8
 .SH NAME
 mdassemble \- assemble MD devices
 .I aka