37 lines
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37 lines
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.2 - 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 3.2.2
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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/mdadm
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This release is largely a stablising release for the 3.2 series.
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Many of the changes just fix bugs introduces in 3.2 or 3.2.1.
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There are some new features. They are:
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- reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental',
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it should work properly and be largely compatible with IMSM drivers in
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other platforms.
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- --assume-clean can be used with --grow --size to avoid resyncing the
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new part of the array. This is only support with very new kernels.
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- RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2. This has been
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supported in the kernel for a while but is only now supprted by
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mdadm.
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- A new tool 'raid6check' is available which can check a RAID6 array,
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or part of it, and report which device is most inconsistent with the
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others if any stripe is inconsistent. This is still under development
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and does not have a man page yet. If anyone tries it out and has any
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questions or experience to report, they would be most welcome on
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linux-raid@vger.kernel.org.
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Future releases in the 3.2 series will only be made if bugfixes are needed.
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The next release to add features is expected to be 3.3.
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NeilBrown 17th June 2011
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