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