From b5e64645037e99b5f05c9499b27b422ae60d23a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 04:49:34 +0000 Subject: mdadm-1.8.0 --- ANNOUNCE-1.8.0 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-1.8.0 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-1.8.0') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-1.8.0 b/ANNOUNCE-1.8.0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4f36d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-1.8.0 @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.8.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 1.8.0 +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 1.8.0 adds: + - --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for + --monitor --daemonise + - Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to + kernel.org yet. + - support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes. + - assorted bug fixes. + +It is hoped that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0 +and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and +array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new +superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6. +1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality. + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: + The School of Computer Science and Engineering +at + The University of New South Wales + +NeilBrown 01 November 2004 + -- cgit