| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4-pre1 - development release for testing only |
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| I am somewhat cautious in announcing the availability of |
| mdadm version 2.4-pre1 |
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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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| pre-release 2.4-pre1 contains support for growing a raid5 array i.e. |
| adding extra drives and restriping the whole arrays. |
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| This requires a kernel more recent than 2.6.16-rc6-mm2. |
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| During a restripe, there is a crtical section at the start where a |
| system crash can leave the contents of the raid5 unrecoverable. This |
| version of mdadm will backup that section, and can restore it when |
| reassembling the array after a crash. |
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| Have fun, but use it carefully and report any problems. |
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| NeilBrown 20th March 2006 |
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