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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - 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 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4.
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Hopefully the last before 2.6.
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- Don't #include linux/blkpg.h as that isn't safe. Just
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include the content literally.
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- Reduce maximum bitmap usage when working with bitmap files,
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so that a only single-page allocations are made, even on
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64bit hosts with 4K pages.
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- Close stray fd in mdassemble so that it can assemble stacked
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- If mdassemble finds an array already assembled, it marks it
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- Remove error in md_open if array is already active. This isn't
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needed and gets in the ways if an array was created e.g. in
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initramfs, but device doesn't yet exist in /dev.
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- When --assemble --scan is run, if all arrays that could be found
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have already been started, don't report an error.
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- Fix a couple of bugs related to raid10 and the new 'offset' layout.
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- Improve error message when a wrong '--update' option is given.
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Development of mdadm is sponsored by
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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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NeilBrown 23rd October 2006