From e5329c3747a4e9eb7addbfaa59b8d5e8688ce2a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:16:01 +0000 Subject: mdadm-1.7.0 --- ANNOUNCE-1.7.0 | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-1.7.0 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-1.7.0') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-1.7.0 b/ANNOUNCE-1.7.0 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..86c4aacf --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-1.7.0 @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.7.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 1.7.0 +It is available at + http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ +and + http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ + +as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386. + +mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring +device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also +known as Software RAID arrays. + +Release 1.7.0 adds: + - Support "--grow --add" to add a device to a linear array, if the + kernel supports it. Not documented yet. + - Restore support for uclibc which was broken recently. + - Several improvements to the output of --detail, including + reporting "resyncing" or "recovering" in the state. + - Close filedescriptor at end of --detail (exit would have closed it + anyway, so this isn't abig deal). + - Report "Sync checkpoint" in --examine output if appropriate. + - Add --update=resync for --assemble mode to for a resync when the + array is assembled. + - Add support for "raid10", which is under development in 2.6. + Not documented yet. + - --monitor now reads spare-group and spares info from config file + even when names of arrays to scan are given on the command line + +It is expected that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0 +and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and +array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new +superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6. +Prior to that, some point releases (1.7.1, 1.7.2 ...) may be released +so that the changes can be tested by interrested parties. + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: + The School of Computer Science and Engineering +at + The University of New South Wales + +NeilBrown 11 August 2004 + -- cgit v1.2.3