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+Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of 
+   mdadm version 1.0.0
+It is available at
+   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
+
+as both a source tar-ball, 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.
+
+mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
+a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
+including:
+   - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
+   - moving spares between arrays as needed
+   - assembling arrays based on superblock content
+   - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks
+
+The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
+   - feature-complete
+   - reasonably bug-free
+   - reasonably well documented.
+
+I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
+necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....
+
+Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'.  It is the same tool,
+just a different name.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
+  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
+at
+  The University of New South Wales
+
+NeilBrown  10may2002