39 lines
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39 lines
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Groff
Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - 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 2.5.4
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It is available at the usual places:
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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and
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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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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 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3
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Changelog Entries:
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- When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks
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from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0.
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Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line.
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- Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
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bigendian only).
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- Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
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- Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
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This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
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- Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of
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an md array. This is a work-around for annoying messages
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when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a
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partition table.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 13th October 2006
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