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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.12.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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I am pleased to announce the availability of
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
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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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Several of these are backported from the Debian package
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- Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat.
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- Get size calculation right when in Create when BLKGESIZE64 not available
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- Document --size=max option for --grow
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- Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel
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- --stop --scan repeatly cycles until no more progress can be made
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so that stack devices are stopped properly
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- Minor type rationalisation for ident->uuid - now always 'int[]'
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- Fix type in online help for --grow (was -F, now -G)
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- Allow --auto command line option to set default auto=
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value when running "--assemble --scan". Previously
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--auto was ignored if --scan was given
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- Fix a few type casts
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- Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard
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- Fix rounding errors in human_size()
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- Fix silly example in mdadm.conf-examples
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- When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names
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- Suppress listing of devices= in --brief output of -D or -E,
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unless -v is given (-vv gives the old behaviour with -Dsv).
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This is because the device list can change and so is not a
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stable aspect of the array
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- Allow --force with --grow so '-Gfn1' works (on raid1)
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- Make --examine --brief report spares= properly.
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- When device files are made with "--assemble --auto",
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add them to the list of known device name, so that
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assembling stacked devices has a better chance of working.
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- Replace sprintf calls with snprintf (to quiet diet-libc)
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- Add man page for mdassemble
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- Fix compilation with tinyc
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- Lot of minor manpage updates
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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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The University of New South Wales
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NeilBrown 14 June 2005