| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 2.4.1 |
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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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| 2.4.1 primarily fixes an alignment problem in the version-1 |
| superblock. This is an incompatible change relating to |
| raid5-reshape. Read the change log below. |
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| Changelog Entries: |
| - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent |
| superblocks. |
| - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks. |
| NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape. |
| If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks, |
| use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later. |
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| Development of mdadm is sponsored by |
| SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. |
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| NeilBrown 7th April 2006 |
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