| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 3.1.5 |
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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 3.1.4. It contains all the |
| important bugfixes found while working on 3.2 and 3.2.1. It will be |
| the last 3.1.x release - 3.2.1 is expected to be released in a few days. |
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| Changes include: |
| - Fixes for v1.x metadata on big-endian machines. |
| - man page improvements |
| - Improve '--detail --export' when run on partitions of an md array. |
| - Fix regression with removing 'failed' or 'detached' devices. |
| - Fixes for "--assemble --force" in various unusual cases. |
| - Allow '-Y' to mean --export. This was documented but not implemented. |
| - Various fixed for handling 'ddf' metadata. This is now more reliable |
| but could benefit from more interoperability testing. |
| - Correctly list subarrays of a container in "--detail" output. |
| - Improve checks on whether the requested number of devices is supported |
| by the metadata - both for --create and --grow. |
| - Don't remove partitions from a device that is being included in an |
| array until we are fully committed to including it. |
| - Allow "--assemble --update=no-bitmap" so an array with a corrupt |
| bitmap can still be assembled. |
| - Don't allow --add to succeed if it looks like a "--re-add" is probably |
| wanted, but cannot succeed. This avoids inadvertently turning |
| devices into spares when an array is failed. |
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| This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to |
| upgrade to 3.1.5 |
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| NeilBrown 23rd March 2011 |
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