| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 2.5.1 |
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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/ |
| and via git at |
| git://neil.brown.name/git/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 2.5.1 adds multiple minor updates including a couple of bugfixes. |
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| Changelog Entries: |
| - Various fixes for gcc warnings |
| - uclibc warnings |
| - Makefile improvements for static linking/intalling |
| - Makefile uninstall target |
| - Really fix return status of --examine |
| - Typos |
| - Byteorder stuff (again) |
| - Don't try to create devices with --manage or --grow |
| - allow default metadata (superblock) type to be specified |
| in mdadm.conf |
| - Get --stop to list devices stopped but honour --quiet |
| - remove libssl dependency |
| - Avoid some misdetection of overlapping partitions |
| - Fix memory leak in --monitor mode |
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| Development of mdadm is sponsored by |
| SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. |
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| NeilBrown 16th June 2006 |
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