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by Scott James Remnant
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.2 - 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 2.6.2 |
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It is available at the usual places: |
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http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ |
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and |
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countrycode=xx. |
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http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ |
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and via git at |
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git://neil.brown.name/mdadm |
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http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm |
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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 2.6.2 adds a few minor bug fixes to 2.6.1 |
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Changelog Entries: |
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- --fail detached and --remove faulty can be used to fail and |
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remove devices that are no longer physically present. |
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- --export option for --detail or present information in a format |
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that can be processed by udev. |
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- fix internal bitmap allocation problems with v1.1, v1.2 metadata. |
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- --help now goes to stdout so you can direct it to a pager. |
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- Various manpage updates. |
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- Make "--grow --add" for linear arrays really work. |
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- --auto-detect to trigger in-kernel autodetect. |
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- Make return code for "--detail --test" more reliable. Missing |
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devices as well as failed devices cause an error. |
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by |
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. |
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NeilBrown 21st May 2007 |