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| -rw-r--r-- | ANNOUNCE-2.6.8 | 58 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | ReadMe.c | 2 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | inventory | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.8 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdadm.spec | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mdassemble.8 | 2 |
6 files changed, 64 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.6.8 b/ANNOUNCE-2.6.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55f484c --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.6.8 @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.6.8 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.6.8 + +It is available at the usual places: + countrycode=xx. + http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ +and via git at + git://neil.brown.name/mdadm + http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm + +mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring +device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also +known as Software RAID arrays. + +Release 2.6.8 contains various bug fixes and minor enhancements. +It is possibly that 2.6.8 will be the last release in the 2.x +series and very likely that there will never be a 2.7. +Hopefully 3.0 will be released soon making future development +of 2.6.x unnecessary. However if a need does arise for a 2.6.9 +it will be considered. + +Changelog Entries: + fix add_dev() handling of broken links + Assemble: allow --force to work even when event counts are 0. + mapfile: fix bug in testing for /var/run/mdadm/ + Incremental: change precedence order for autof setting. + Adjust major number testing to allow for extended minor number in 2.6.28 + Incremental: allow assembly of foreign array. + Incremental: fix setting of 'autof' flag. + Fix --incremental assembly of partitions arrays. + Fix NULL pointer oops + Fix bad metadata formatting + Allow WRITEMOSTLY to be cleared on --readd using --readwrite. + Remove .UR .UE macros from man page because the don't do what we want. + Grow: Fix linear-growth when devices are not all the same size. + Improve reporting of layout for raid10. + Manage: allow adding device that is just large enough to v1.x array. + Cosmetic cleanup of some messages. + Clean up usage of open() + Add support for distribution specific build extensions + Fix confusing usage in md.4 man page. + Describe the HOMEHOST entry in the mdadm.conf man page. + Some more cleanup of tests. + Add test for stoping and restarting a raid5 reshape. + Add "bitmap=" to "--detail --brief" output when relevant. + Improve error message when mdadm fails to stop an array. + Couple more man page fixes + Add text to man pages suggesting partition type to use for version 1.x metadata. + Italic/bold fixes in man pages. + Fix bug in forced assemble. + Fix an error when assembling arrays that are in the middle of a reshape. + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by + SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. + +NeilBrown 28th November 2008 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ #include "mdadm.h" -char Version[] = Name " - v2.6.7 - 6th June 2008\n"; +char Version[] = Name " - v2.6.8 - 28th November 2008\n"; /* * File: ReadMe.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ ANNOUNCE-2.6.4 ANNOUNCE-2.6.5 ANNOUNCE-2.6.6 ANNOUNCE-2.6.7 +ANNOUNCE-2.6.8 Assemble.c bitmap.c bitmap.h @@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ tests/06update-uuid tests/06wrmostly tests/07autoassemble tests/07autodetect +tests/07reshape5intr tests/07testreshape5 tests/check tests/testdev @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or .\" (at your option) any later version. .\" See file COPYING in distribution for details. -.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.6.7 +.TH MDADM 8 "" v2.6.8 .SH NAME mdadm \- manage MD devices .I aka @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Summary: mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays) Name: mdadm -Version: 2.6.7 +Version: 2.6.8 Release: 1 Source: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tgz URL: http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm diff --git a/mdassemble.8 b/mdassemble.8 index d60c775..1179244 100644 --- a/mdassemble.8 +++ b/mdassemble.8 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" -*- nroff -*- -.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v2.6.7 +.TH MDASSEMBLE 8 "" v2.6.8 .SH NAME mdassemble \- assemble MD devices .I aka |