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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
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I am pleased to announce the availability of
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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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http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
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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 2.6.3 adds a few minor bug fixes to 2.6.2
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- allow --write-behind to be set for --grow.
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- When adding new disk to an array, don't reserve so much bitmap
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space that the disk cannot store the required data. (Needed when
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1.x array was created with older mdadm).
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- When adding a drive that was a little too small, we did not get
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the correct error message.
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- Make sure that if --assemble find an array in the critical region
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of a reshape, and cannot find the critical data to restart the
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reshape, it gives an error message.
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- Fix segfault with '--detail --export' and non-persistent
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- Various manpage updates.
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- Improved 'raid4' support (--assemble, --monitor)
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- Option parsing fixes w.r.t -a
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- Interpret "--assemble --metadata=1" to allow any version 1.x
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metadata, and be more specific in the "metadata=" message printed
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with --examine --brief
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- Fix spare migration in --monitor.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 20th August 2007