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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0-devel-1 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE - 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 2.0-devel-1
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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 2.0-devel-1 is a development release that quit possible has
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bugs. It released in the hope of getting wider testing.
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It adds support for version-1 superblock which allow more that 28 devices
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in an array (among other things) and for bitmap-based-write-intent-logging
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which can improve resync speed after an unclean shutdown.
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The bitmap logging requires patches which should be in the next -mm release
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after 2.6.11-rc4 and can be downloaded from
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http://neilb.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/patches/linux-devel/2.6/2005-02-18-00/
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which contains patches against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2.
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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 18 February 2005
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