| 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 |
| mdadm version 2.1 |
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| It is available at the usual places: |
| http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ |
| and |
| http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ |
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| mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring |
| device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also |
| known as Software RAID arrays. |
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| Release 2.1 fixes a few problems found after the release of 2.0. |
| If you are using raid10 or version-1 superblocks and upgrade is |
| recommended. |
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| Specifically: |
| - Fix assembling of raid10 array when devices are missing. |
| mdadm now correctly detects if a array is workable or not |
| depending on which devices are present, and so will correctly |
| handle "--assemble --force" if multiple devices have failed. |
| - Report raid10 layout in --examine output. |
| - Fix assembling of arrays that use the version-1 superblock and |
| have spares. Previously the spares would be ignored. |
| - Fix bug so that multiple drives can be re-added at once. |
| - Fix problem with hot-adding a bitmap to version-1-superblock |
| arrays. |
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| Development of mdadm is sponsored by |
| SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. |
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| NeilBrown 12th September 2005 |
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