From f3c7fda66134faf0d854b3af5f29d107e57cdd31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 04:55:02 +0000 Subject: Release 2.2 Signed-off-by: Neil Brown --- ANNOUNCE-2.2 | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-2.2 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-2.2') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.2 b/ANNOUNCE-2.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8474c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.2 @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +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 + + -- cgit