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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - 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 1.0.0
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It is available at
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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as both a source tar-ball, as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.
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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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mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
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a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
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including:
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- monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
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- moving spares between arrays as needed
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- assembling arrays based on superblock content
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- displaying details of arrays and of superblocks
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The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
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- feature-complete
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- reasonably bug-free
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- reasonably well documented.
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I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
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necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....
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Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'. It is the same tool,
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just a different name.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
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The School of Computer Science and Engineering
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The University of New South Wales
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NeilBrown 10may2002
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