38 lines
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Groff
38 lines
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Groff
Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.1 - 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 2.1
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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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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 2.1 fixes a few problems found after the release of 2.0.
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If you are using raid10 or version-1 superblocks and upgrade is
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recommended.
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Specifically:
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- Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing.
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mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not
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depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly
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handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed.
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- Report raid10 layout in --examine output.
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- Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and
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have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored.
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- Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once.
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- Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock
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arrays.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 12th September 2005
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