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+Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.9.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of 
+   mdadm version 1.9.0
+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 1.9.0 adds:
+    -   Fix rpm build problem (stray %)
+    -   Minor manpage updates
+    -   Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people.
+    -   --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using
+        the appropriate major/minor number for them.
+    -   Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of 
+	"foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of
+	"f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"...
+    -   Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of 
+	"MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work
+	on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later).
+    -   Add some missing closes of open file descriptors.
+    -   Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using
+	it to find devices, rather than only once.
+    -   Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the
+	order in which arrays are stopped.
+    -   Improve some error messages.
+    -   Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g.
+	mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab]
+	works.
+    -   Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent.
+
+This is based on 1.8.0 and *not* on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release 
+for the upcoming 2.0.0.  The next prerelease will have a more obvious name.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
+  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
+at
+  The University of New South Wales
+
+NeilBrown  04 February 2005
+