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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.3 b/ANNOUNCE-2.3 deleted file mode 100644 index b57dcb0..0000000 --- a/ANNOUNCE-2.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux - -I am pleased to announce the availability of - mdadm version 2.3 - -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 2.3 fixes an assortment of bugs including the "--assemble --scan" -crash. It also makes mdadm better at handling very large arrays. -Finally, it adds some functionality to support some pending kernel -features such as raid5 reshaping. - -Changelog Entries: - - Try /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist. - This provided compatability for Debian. - - Fixed for version-1 superblock: - report chunksize for raid6 and raid10 - make sure device size used is a multiple of chunksize - - Fix "--assemble --scan" crash. - - Fix completely failure to create array on ppc64 - - Fix memcmp in place of memcpy - - A few minor improvements to online help - - Clean up usage of 'long long' for used-size of devices, so - that it is possible to create a raid1 of 7TB devices! - - Make internal bitmaps work on 7TB raid1 arrays. - - Provide error message if --examine doesn't find any superblock. - - Report 'reshape' status in --examine - this depends on kernel - patches that are not yet finalised. - - Report bitmap status in --detail and --examine - - Default to v1 superblocks instead of v0.90 if the array - is too big for 0.90 to handle. - - Sort the output of "mdadm --detail --scan" so that it is - in a suitable order for assembling arrays. i.e. components come - before an array that they are part of. - - Print size of large reiserfs array properly went warning of - possible confilcts. - -Development of mdadm is sponsored by - SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - -NeilBrown 2nd February 2006 - |