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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.0 b/ANNOUNCE-2.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2200fe7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.0 @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am (at last) please to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.0 + +It is available at the usual places: + http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ +and + http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/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 2.0 contains a substantial rewrite of various pieces of +functionality, particularly the --create option. This enables support +for a new style of superblock - the version-1 superblock. +Version-1 can support many more than 28 devices and can be easily +moved between hosts with different endian-ness. +Release 2.0 also contains support for the recent bitmap-intent-logging +which will appear in 2.6.13, and the RAID1 write-behind that will be +available in 2.6.14. + +This release comes with a test-suite which has been used to verify that +mdadm-2.0 actually works in a number of common scenarios. Some of the +tests require a bleeding-edge kernel, so don't be surprised if some fail +on kernels prior to 2.6.14. + +Being a '.0' release, 2.0 should be treated with some caution. +However I believe it is quite stable and can safely be used on +production systems. + + +Development of mdadm has moved from CSE@UNSW and is now sponsored by + SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. + +NeilBrown 25th August 2005 + |