From 8e64e04456b036b23b86ed8219cb8f7c6a53eba6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:12:47 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Release 2-5-4 --- ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ChangeLog | 2 +- ReadMe.c | 2 +- inventory | 1 + mdadm.8 | 2 +- mdadm.spec | 2 +- 6 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf2f197 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.5.4 + +It is available at the usual places: + http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ +and + 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 + +mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring +device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also +known as Software RAID arrays. + +Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3 + +Changelog Entries: + - When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks + from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0. + Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line. + - Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects + bigendian only). + - Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata + - Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto= + This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf. + - Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of + an md array. This is a work-around for annoying messages + when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a + partition table. + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by + SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. + +NeilBrown 13th October 2006 diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index cc1e509..5c66158 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Changes Prior to this release +Changes Prior to 2.5.4 release - When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0. Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line. diff --git a/ReadMe.c b/ReadMe.c index f1b3ee3..5704423 100644 --- a/ReadMe.c +++ b/ReadMe.c @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ #include "mdadm.h" -char Version[] = Name " - v2.5.3 - 7 August 2006\n"; +char Version[] = Name " - v2.5.4 - 13 October 2006\n"; /* * File: ReadMe.c diff --git a/inventory b/inventory index 8e83f3b..e82f365 100644 --- a/inventory +++ b/inventory @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-2.5 ANNOUNCE-2.5.1 ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 ANNOUNCE-2.5.3 +ANNOUNCE-2.5.4 Assemble.c Build.c COPYING diff --git a/mdadm.8 b/mdadm.8 index 076ee63..5db6fef 100644 --- a/mdadm.8 +++ b/mdadm.8 @@ -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 "" v2.5.3 +.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.5.4 .SH NAME mdadm \- manage MD devices .I aka diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec index ea2bfeb..e8d5c5d 100644 --- a/mdadm.spec +++ b/mdadm.spec @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Summary: mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays) Name: mdadm -Version: 2.5.3 +Version: 2.5.4 Release: 1 Source: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tgz URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/