From a92f6acc43a37b7fcea9d968b6e62035ca73a100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 05:17:24 +0000 Subject: Update ChangeLog and release 2.3 Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Neil Brown --- ANNOUNCE-2.3 | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-2.3 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-2.3') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.3 b/ANNOUNCE-2.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b57dcb0 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.3 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +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 + -- cgit