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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - 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 1.8.0
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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 1.8.0 adds:
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- --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for
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--monitor --daemonise
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- Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to
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kernel.org yet.
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- support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes.
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- assorted bug fixes.
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It is hoped 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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1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality.
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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 01 November 2004
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