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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.4 b/ANNOUNCE-2.4 deleted file mode 100644 index 3923af5..0000000 --- a/ANNOUNCE-2.4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ -Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux - -I am pleased to announce the availability of - mdadm version 2.4 - -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 2.4 primarily adds support for increasing the number of -devices in a RAID5 array, which requires 2.6.17 (or some -rc or -mm -prerelease). -It also includes a number of minor functionality enhancements and -documentation updates. - -Changelog Entries: - - Rewrite 'reshape' support including performing a backup - of the critical region for a raid5 growth, and restoring that - backup after a crash. - - Put a 'canary' at each end of the backup so a corruption - can be more easily detected. - - Remove useless 'ident' arguement from ->getinfo_super method. - - Support --backup-file for backing-up critical section during - growth. - - Erase old superblocks (of different versions) when creating new - array. - - Allow --monitor to work with arrays with >28 devices - - Report reshape information in --detail - - Handle symlinks in /dev better - - Fix mess in --detail output which a device is missing. - - Manpage tidyup - - Support 'bitmap=' in mdadm.conf for auto-assembling arrays with - write-intent bitmaps in separate files. - - Updates to md.4 man page including section on RESTRIPING and SYSFS - -Development of mdadm is sponsored by - SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - -NeilBrown 30th March 2006 - |