| Please see git logs for detailed change log. | |
| This file just contains highlight. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.1.4 | |
| Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev: | |
| - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop | |
| - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev | |
| And fixed regressions: | |
| - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array | |
| - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than | |
| throwing an error | |
| - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling | |
| a container which does not yet have enough devices. | |
| - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it. | |
| - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.1.3 | |
| - mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to | |
| /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time. This | |
| location is choses and most distros provide it during early | |
| boot and preserve it through. As long a /dev exists and is | |
| writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created. | |
| Other files file communication with mdmon live here too. | |
| This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where | |
| udev would spin in early-boot. | |
| - IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions | |
| as they should only be used on whole-disks. | |
| - Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed. | |
| - A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with | |
| --kill-subarray. Also subarrays can be renamed with | |
| --update-subarray | |
| - -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used from udev to | |
| fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been | |
| unplugged from the system. i.e. hot-unplug-support. | |
| - "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device | |
| that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't | |
| and will automatically --re-add it | |
| - Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings. | |
| - Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.1.2 | |
| - The default metadata has change again (sorry about that). | |
| It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way. It turned | |
| out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it | |
| unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still | |
| suitable to use. | |
| - Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still | |
| active | |
| - Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file | |
| line. When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to | |
| auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not | |
| auto-assemble anything else. | |
| - Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize. | |
| - VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN. | |
| This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the | |
| pid and sock files that mdmon needs. | |
| - Various mdmon fixes | |
| - Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible. | |
| - If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies, | |
| the previously had to be listed in the "right" order. Now | |
| any order should work. | |
| - Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process | |
| of recovering. | |
| - Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page. | |
| - Various command-line-option parsing improvements. | |
| - ... and lots of other bug fixes. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.1.1 | |
| - Multiple fixes for new --grow levels including fixes for | |
| serious data corruption problems. | |
| - Change default metadata to v1.1 | |
| - Change default chunk size to 512K | |
| - Change default bitmap chunk size to 64Meg | |
| - When --re-add is used, don't fall back to | |
| --add if --re-add fails as this can destroy data. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.1 | |
| - Support --grow to change the layout of RAID4/5/6 | |
| - Support --grow to change the chunksize of raid 4/5/6 | |
| - Support --grow to change level from RAID1 -> RAID5 -> RAID6 and | |
| back. | |
| - Support --grow to reduce the number of devices in RAID4/5/6. | |
| - Support restart of these grow options which assembling an array | |
| which is partially grown. | |
| - Assorted tests of this code, and of different RAID6 layouts. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.0.3 | |
| - Improvements for creating arrays giving just a name, like 'foo', | |
| rather than the full '/dev/md/foo'. | |
| - Improvements for assembling member arrays of containers. | |
| - Improvements to test suite | |
| - Add option to change increment for RebuildNN messages reported | |
| by "mdadm --monitor" | |
| - Improvements to mdmon 'hand-over' from initrd to final root. | |
| - Handle merging of devices that have left an IMSM array and are | |
| being re-incorporated. | |
| - Add missing space in "--detail --brief" output. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.0.2 | |
| - Fix crash when hosthost is not set, as often happens in | |
| early boot. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.0.1 | |
| - Fix various segfaults | |
| - Fixed for --examine with containers | |
| - Lots of other little fixes. | |
| Changes Prior to release 3.0 | |
| - Support for externally managed metadata, specifically DDF and IMSM. | |
| - Depend on udev to create entries in /dev, rather than creating them | |
| ourselves. | |
| - remove --auto-update-home-hosts | |
| - new config file line "auto" | |
| - new "<ignore>" and "any" options for "homehost" | |
| - numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements. |