| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.9 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 2.6.9 |
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| It is available at the usual places: |
| countrycode=xx. |
| http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ |
| and via git at |
| git://neil.brown.name/mdadm |
| http://neil.brown.name/git?p=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 2.6.9 contains various bug fixes. |
| Clearly 2.6.8 was not the final 2.x release. |
| Hopefully 2.6.9 will be as I don't want go to 2.7, and |
| 2.6.10 might be confusing (though I'll probably go that |
| way if I need to). |
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| New features will only appear in the 3.x series of which 3.0 will be |
| release within a few months. |
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| Changelog Entries: |
| Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (1): |
| mdadm fix compilation for uClibc |
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| Dustin Kirkland (2): |
| Fail overtly when asprintf fails to allocate memory |
| Typo in earlier patch : asprintf -> vasprintf |
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| NeilBrown (11): |
| Allow --config in --incremental mode. |
| Kill: Don't use O_EXCL when --force is used. |
| Assemble: don't assume array is 'clean' unless all devices think it is. |
| Assemble: set stripe_cache_size properly when restarting a reshape. |
| map: rebuild map if it doesn't exist. |
| Free mdstat data structures properly. |
| Fix the used device size in mdadm -D output. |
| Document 'max' option to --grow --size in --help output. |
| Fix possible crash if bitmap metadata is bad. |
| Monitor: send --test message for arrays in /proc/mdstat that aren't in mdadm.conf |
| super1: make sure max_dev grows enough when adding a device to an array. |
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| Development of mdadm is sponsored by |
| SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. |
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| NeilBrown 28th November 2008 |