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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-1.12.0 b/ANNOUNCE-1.12.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..323e754 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-1.12.0 @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.12.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 1.12.0 +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 1.12.0 adds: + Several of these are backported from the Debian package + - Don't use 'lstat' to check for blockdevices, use stat. + - Get size calculation right when in Create when BLKGESIZE64 not available + - Document --size=max option for --grow + - Document SparesMissing event and DeviceDisappeared/WrongLevel + - --stop --scan repeatly cycles until no more progress can be made + so that stack devices are stopped properly + - Minor type rationalisation for ident->uuid - now always 'int[]' + - Fix type in online help for --grow (was -F, now -G) + - Allow --auto command line option to set default auto= + value when running "--assemble --scan". Previously + --auto was ignored if --scan was given + - Fix a few type casts + - Fix parsing of /dev/md/N in is_standard + - Fix rounding errors in human_size() + - Fix silly example in mdadm.conf-examples + - When finding a /dev name for a device, prefer shorter names + - Suppress listing of devices= in --brief output of -D or -E, + unless -v is given (-vv gives the old behaviour with -Dsv). + This is because the device list can change and so is not a + stable aspect of the array + - Allow --force with --grow so '-Gfn1' works (on raid1) + - Make --examine --brief report spares= properly. + - When device files are made with "--assemble --auto", + add them to the list of known device name, so that + assembling stacked devices has a better chance of working. + - Replace sprintf calls with snprintf (to quiet diet-libc) + - Add man page for mdassemble + - Fix compilation with tinyc + - Lot of minor manpage updates + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: + The School of Computer Science and Engineering +at + The University of New South Wales + +NeilBrown 14 June 2005 + |