47 lines
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47 lines
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.3 - 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 3.1.3
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It is available at the usual places:
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countrycode=xx.
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http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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and via git at
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git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
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http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
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This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2
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Significant changes are:
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- mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to
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/dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time. This
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location is choses and most distros provide it during early
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boot and preserve it through. As long a /dev exists and is
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writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created.
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Other files file communication with mdmon live here too.
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This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
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udev would spin in early-boot.
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- IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions
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as they should only be used on whole-disks.
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- Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
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- A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with
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--kill-subarray. Also subarrays can be renamed with
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--update-subarray
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- -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used from udev to
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fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been
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unplugged from the system. i.e. hot-unplug-support.
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- "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device
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that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't
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and will automatically --re-add it
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- Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings.
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- Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc
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This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
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upgrade to 3.1.3
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It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new
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features. 3.1.4 will only happen if important bugs show up before 3.2
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is stable.
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NeilBrown 6th August 2010
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