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author | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-04-17 23:42:52 +0000 |
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committer | Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> | 2006-04-17 23:42:52 +0000 |
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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.0-devel-1 b/ANNOUNCE-2.0-devel-1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..168fbf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.0-devel-1 @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0-devel-1 DEVELOPMENT RELEASE - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.0-devel-1 +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 2.0-devel-1 is a development release that quit possible has + bugs. It released in the hope of getting wider testing. + It adds support for version-1 superblock which allow more that 28 devices + in an array (among other things) and for bitmap-based-write-intent-logging + which can improve resync speed after an unclean shutdown. + + The bitmap logging requires patches which should be in the next -mm release + after 2.6.11-rc4 and can be downloaded from + http://neilb.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/patches/linux-devel/2.6/2005-02-18-00/ + which contains patches against 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. + + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: + The School of Computer Science and Engineering +at + The University of New South Wales + +NeilBrown 18 February 2005 + |