Release mdadm-3.3.4

Important bugfix release.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

ANNOUNCE-3.3.4

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3.4 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
+
+I am somewhat disappointed to have to announce the availability of
+   mdadm version 3.3.4
+
+It is available at the usual places:
+   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+and via git at
+   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
+   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
+   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm.git
+
+In mdadm-3.3 a change was made to how IMSM (Intel Matrix Storage
+Manager) metadata was handled.  Previously an IMSM array would only
+be assembled if it was attached to an IMSM controller.
+
+In 3.3 this was relaxed as there are circumstances where the
+controller is not properly detected.  Unfortunately this has negative
+consequences which have only just come to light.
+
+If you have an IMSM RAID1 configured and then disable RAID in the
+BIOS, the metadata will remain on the devices.  If you then install
+some other OS on one device and then install Linux on the other, Linux
+might eventually start noticing the IMSM metadata (depending a bit on whether
+mdadm is included in the initramfs) and might start up the RAID1.  This could
+copy one device over the other, thus trashing one of the installations.
+
+Not good.
+
+So with this release IMSM arrays will only be assembled if attached to
+an IMSM controller, or if "--force" is given to --assemble, or if the
+environment variable IMSM_NO_PLATFORM is set (used primarily for
+testing).
+
+I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.3.4 if you are using 3.3 or later.
+
+NeilBrown 3rd August 2015.

ReadMe.c

@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@
 #include "mdadm.h"
 
 #ifndef VERSION
-#define VERSION "3.3.3"
+#define VERSION "3.3.4"
 #endif
 #ifndef VERS_DATE
-#define VERS_DATE "24th July 2015"
+#define VERS_DATE "3rd August 2015"
 #endif
 char Version[] = "mdadm - v" VERSION " - " VERS_DATE "\n";
 

inventory

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-3.3
 ANNOUNCE-3.3.1
 ANNOUNCE-3.3.2
 ANNOUNCE-3.3.3
+ANNOUNCE-3.3.4
 Assemble.c
 Build.c
 COPYING

mdadm.8.in

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 .\"   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 .\"   (at your option) any later version.
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDADM 8 "" v3.3.3
+.TH MDADM 8 "" v3.3.4
 .SH NAME
 mdadm \- manage MD devices
 .I aka

mdadm.spec

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Summary:     mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays)
 Name:        mdadm
-Version:     3.3.3
+Version:     3.3.4
 Release:     1
 Source:      http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tar.gz
 URL:         http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm

mdassemble.8

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v3.3.3
+.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v3.3.4
 .SH NAME
 mdassemble \- assemble MD devices
 .I aka

mdmon.8

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details.
-.TH MDMON 8 "" v3.3.3
+.TH MDMON 8 "" v3.3.4
 .SH NAME
 mdmon \- monitor MD external metadata arrays