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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - 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 1.9.0
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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 1.9.0 adds:
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- Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
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- Minor manpage updates
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- Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
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- --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
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the appropriate major/minor number for them.
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- Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of
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"foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
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"f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
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- Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of
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"MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
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on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
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- Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
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- Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
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it to find devices, rather than only once.
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- Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
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order in which arrays are stopped.
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- Improve some error messages.
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- Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
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mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
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works.
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- Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
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This is based on 1.8.0 and *not* on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release
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for the upcoming 2.0.0. The next prerelease will have a more obvious 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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at
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The University of New South Wales
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NeilBrown 04 February 2005
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