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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.2 b/ANNOUNCE-2.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 8474c21..0000000 --- a/ANNOUNCE-2.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux - -I am pleased to announce the availability of - mdadm version 2.2 - -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 2.2 fixes a few small bugs and add as few small elements of -functionality. Possibly the most interesting is the addition of -'README.initramfs' and 'mkinitramfs'. Feedback on these would be -most welcome. - -Changelog Entries: - - Assorted bug fixes - - Support write-intent-bitmaps on raid10 - - Support little-endian (Rather than hostendian) bitmaps. - - Return correct error code from 'mdadm -S' - - Remove extra blank line from 'mdadm -Eb' output. - - Improve option parsing so that -a and -b do not have - optional arguements: the arg is either required or not - depending on context. - - Allow scanning of devices listed in /proc/partitions even - if they don't appear in /dev. - - Support --assume-clean in --create mode as well as --build - - Add support for --monitor to report to syslog: -y or --syslog. - Thanks to Ross Vandegrift - - --monitor now reports which device failed in a 'Fail' message - This broke with 2.6 - - Improve chance of array starting properly after a crash. - mdadm was insisting the event numbers were identical, but this - isn't needed, and is a problem if the crash was while the metadata - was being updated. - - Support --update==uuid - - Added README.initramfs and mkinitramfs to help people use an - initram for starting md arrays at boot. - - -Development of mdadm is sponsored by - SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - -NeilBrown 5th December 2005 - - |