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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.5.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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I am pleased to announce the availability of
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mdadm version 1.5.0
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It is available at
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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and
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http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/
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as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
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mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
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device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
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known as Software RAID arrays.
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Release 1.5.0 adds:
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- new command "mdassemble" for use in initrd/initramfs.
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- raid6 support (for 2.6.2 and later kernels)
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- RebuildFinished event in monitor mode.
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- include rebuild status in --detail output.
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- fixes for assorted compilation problems
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
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The School of Computer Science and Engineering
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at
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The University of New South Wales
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NeilBrown 22 Jan 2004
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