| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 3.1.3 |
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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 3.1.2 |
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| Significant changes are: |
| - 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 |
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| This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to |
| upgrade to 3.1.3 |
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| It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new |
| features. 3.1.4 will only happen if important bugs show up before 3.2 |
| is stable. |
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| NeilBrown 6th August 2010 |