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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - 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 1.7.0
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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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and
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http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) 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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Release 1.7.0 adds:
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- Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the
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kernel supports it. Not documented yet.
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- Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently.
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- Several improvements to the output of --detail, including
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reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state.
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- Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it
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anyway, so this isn't abig deal).
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- Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate.
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- Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the
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array is assembled.
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- Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6.
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Not documented yet.
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- --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file
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even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line
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It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0
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and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and
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array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new
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superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6.
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Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released
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so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties.
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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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at
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The University of New South Wales
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NeilBrown 11 August 2004
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