| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 3.1.2 |
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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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| This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1. |
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| Significant changes are: |
| - 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. |
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| This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to |
| upgrade to 3.1.2 |
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| NeilBrown 10th March 2010 |