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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - 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 1.6.0
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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 1.6.0 adds:
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- --grow which (in 2.6.7-rc1-mm1 and hopefully 2.6.8) allows raid1/4/5/6
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arrays to change the active size of the underlying devices, and allows
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raid1 arrays to change the number of active drives.
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- Allows --build to buld raid1 and multipath arrays.
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- adds "degraded" and "recovering" as possibilities for the status line
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in --detail
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- fixes a bug in 1.5.0 which stopped resync status messages from being
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generated in --monitor mode
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- Further support for partitionable arrays included "--auto=" option
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and "auto=" config file entry which instructs mdadm to create the necessary
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device files after allocating an unused array number.
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- assorted minor fixes and improvements.
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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 4 Jun 2004
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