| Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux |
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| I am pleased to announce the availability of |
| mdadm version 3.2.2 |
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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/mdadm |
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| This release is largely a stablising release for the 3.2 series. |
| Many of the changes just fix bugs introduces in 3.2 or 3.2.1. |
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| There are some new features. They are: |
| - reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental', |
| it should work properly and be largely compatible with IMSM drivers in |
| other platforms. |
| - --assume-clean can be used with --grow --size to avoid resyncing the |
| new part of the array. This is only support with very new kernels. |
| - RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2. This has been |
| supported in the kernel for a while but is only now supprted by |
| mdadm. |
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| - A new tool 'raid6check' is available which can check a RAID6 array, |
| or part of it, and report which device is most inconsistent with the |
| others if any stripe is inconsistent. This is still under development |
| and does not have a man page yet. If anyone tries it out and has any |
| questions or experience to report, they would be most welcome on |
| linux-raid@vger.kernel.org. |
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| Future releases in the 3.2 series will only be made if bugfixes are needed. |
| The next release to add features is expected to be 3.3. |
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| NeilBrown 17th June 2011 |