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Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
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51 lines
1.8 KiB
Groff
Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - 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 2.2
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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 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of
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functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of
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'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be
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most welcome.
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Changelog Entries:
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- Assorted bug fixes
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- Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10
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- Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps.
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- Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S'
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- Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output.
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- Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have
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optional arguements: the arg is either required or not
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depending on context.
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- Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even
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if they don't appear in /dev.
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- Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build
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- Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog.
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Thanks to Ross Vandegrift
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- --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message
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This broke with 2.6
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- Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash.
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mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this
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isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata
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was being updated.
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- Support --update==uuid
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- Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an
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initram for starting md arrays at boot.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 5th December 2005
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