Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

I am pleased to announce the availability of
   mdadm version 3.2.4

It is available at the usual places, now including github:
   countrycode=xx.
   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
and via git at
   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm

This release is largely a bugfix release for the 3.2 series with many
minor fixes with little or no impact.

"--oneline" log of changes is below.  Some notable ones are:

 - --offroot argument to improve interactions between mdmon and initrd
 - --prefer argument to select which /dev names to display in some
   circumstances.
 - relax restructions on when "--add" will be allowed
 - Fix bug with adding write-intent-bitmap to active array
 - Now defaults to "/run/mdadm" for storing run-time files.

Upgrading is encouraged.

The next mdadm release is expected to be 3.3 with a number of new
features.

NeilBrown 9th May 2012

77b3ac8 monitor: make return from read_and_act more symbolic.
68226a8 monitor: ensure we retry soon when 'remove' fails.
8453f8d fix: Monitor sometimes crashes
90fa1a2 Work around gcc-4.7's strict aliasing checks
0c4304c fix: container creation with --incremental used.
5d1c7cd FIX: External metadata sometimes is not updated
3c20f98 FIX: mdmon check in reshape_container() can cause a problem
59ab9f5 FIX: Typo error in fprint command
9587c37 imsm: load_super_imsm_all function refactoring
ec50f7b imsm: load_imsm_super_all supports loading metadata from the device list
ca9de18 imsm: validate the number of imsm volumes per controller
30602f5 imsm: display fd in error trace when when store_imsm_mpb failes
eb155f6 mdmon: Use getopt_long() to parse command line options
08ca2ad Add --offroot argument to mdadm
da82751 Add --offroot argument to mdmon
a0963a8 Spawn mdmon with --offroot if mdadm was launched with --offroot
f878b24 imsm: fix, the second array need to have the whole available space on devices
d597705 getinfo_super1: Use MaxSector in place of sb->size
6ef8905 super1: make aread/awrite always use an aligned buffer.
de5a472 Remove avail_disks arg from 'enough'.
da8fe5a Assemble: fix --force assemble during reshape.
b10c663 config: fix handing of 'homehost' in AUTO line.
92d49ec FIX: NULL pointer to strdup() can be passed
d2bde6d imsm: FIX: No new missing disks are allowed during general migration
111e9fd FIX: Array is not run when expansion disks are added
bf5cf7c imsm: FIX: imsm_get_allowed_degradation() doesn't count degradation for raid1
50927b1 Fix: Sometimes mdmon throws core dump during reshape
78340e2 Flush mdmon before next reshape step during container operation
e174219 imsm: FIX: Chunk size migration problem
f93346e FIX: use md position to reshape restart
6a75c8c imsm: FIX: use md position to reshape restart
51d83f5 imsm: FIX: Clear migration record when migration switches to next volume.
e1dd332 FIX: restart reshape when reshape process is stopped just between 2 reshapes
1ca90aa FIX: Do not try to (continue) reshape using inactive array
9f1b0f0 config: conf_match should ignore devname when not set.
d669228 Use posix_memalign() for memory used to write bitmaps
178950e FIX: Changes in '0' case for reshape position verification
9200d41 avoid double-free upon "old buggy kernel" sysfs_read failure
4011421 Print error message if failing to write super for 1.x metadata
0011874 Use MDMON_DIR for pid files created in Monitor.c
56d1885 Assemble: don't use O_EXCL until we have checked device content.
b720636 Assemble: support assembling of a RAID0 being reshaped.
c69ffac Manage: allow --re-add to failed array.
52f07f5 Reset bad flag on map update
911cead super1: support superblocks up to 4K.
ad6db3c Create: reduce the verbosity of 'default_layout'.
b2bfdfa super1.c don't keep recalculating bitmap pointer
4122675 Define and use SUPER1_SIZE for allocations
1afa930 init_super1() memset full buffer allocated for superblock
2de0b8a match_metadata_desc1(): Use calloc instead of malloc+memset
3c0bcd4 Use 4K buffer alignment for superblock allocations
308340a Use struct align_fd to cache fd's block size for aligned reads/writes
65ed615 match_metadata_desc0(): Use calloc instead of malloc+memset
de89706 Generalize ROUND_UP() macro and introduce matching ROUND_UP_PTR()
0a2f189 super1.c: use ROUND_UP/ROUND_UP_PTR
654a381 super-intel.c: Use ROUND_UP() instead of manually coding it
42d5dfd __write_init_super_ddf(): Use posix_memalign() instead of static aligned buffer
d4633e0 Examine: fix array size calculation for RAID10.
e62b778 Assemble: improve verbose logging when including old devices.
0073a6e Remove possible crash during RAID6 -> RAID5 reshape.
69fe207 Incremental: fix adding devices with --incremental
bcbb311 Manage: replace 'return 1' with 'goto abort'.
9f58469 Manage: freeze recovery while adding multiple devices.
ae6c05a Create: round off size for RAID1 arrays.
5ca3a90 Grow: print useful error when converting RAID1->RAID5 will fail.
c07d640 Fix tests/05r1-re-add-nosupper
2d762ad Fix the new ROUND_UP macro.
fd324b0 sysfs: fixed sysfs_freeze_array array to work properly with Manage_subdevs.
5551b11 imsm: avoid overflows for disks over 1TB
97f81ee clear hi bits if not used after loading metadata from disk
e03640b simplify calculating array_blocks
29cd082 show 2TB volumes/disks support in --detail-platform
2cc699a check volume size in validate_geometry_imsm_orom
9126b9a check that no disk over 2TB is used to create container when no support
027c374 imsm: set 2tb disk attribute for spare
3556c2f Fix typo: wan -> want
15632a9 parse_size: distinguish between 0 and error.
fbdef49 Bitmap_offset is a signed number
508a7f1 super1: leave more space in front of data by default.
40110b9 Fix two typos in fprintf messages
342460c mdadm man page: fix typo
0e7f69a imsm: display maximum volumes per controller and array
36fd8cc imsm: FIX: Update function imsm_num_data_members() for Raid1/10
7abc987 imsm: FIX: Add volume size expand support to imsm_analyze_change()
f3871fd imsm: Add new metadata update for volume size expansion
54397ed imsm: Execute size change for external metatdata
016e00f FIX: Support metadata changes rollback
fbf3d20 imsm: FIX: Support metadata changes rollback
44f6f18 FIX: Extend size of raid0 array
7e7e9a4 FIX: Respect metadata size limitations
65a9798 FIX: Detect error and rollback metadata
13bcac9 imsm: Add function imsm_get_free_size()
b130333 imsm: Support setting max size for size change operation
c41e00b imsm: FIX: Component size alignment check
58d26a2 FIX: Size change is possible as standalone change only
4aecb54 FIX: Assembled second array is in read only state during reshape
ae2416e FIX: resolve make everything compilation error
480f356 Raid limit of 1024 when scanning for devices.
c2ecf5f Add --prefer option for --detail and --monitor
0a99975 Relax restrictions on when --add is permitted.
7ce0570 imsm: fix: rebuild does not continue after reboot
b51702b fix: correct extending size of raid0 array
34a1395 Fix sign extension of bitmap_offset in super1.c
012a864 Introduce sysfs_set_num_signed() and use it to set bitmap/offset
5d7b407 imsm: fix: thunderdome may drop 2tb attribute
5ffdc2d Update test for "is udev active".
96fd06e Adjust to new standard of /run
974e039 test: don't worry too much about array size.
b0a658f Grow: failing the set the per-device size is not an error.
36614e9 super-intel.c: Don't try to close negative fd
562aa10 super-intel.c: Fix resource leak from opendir()