From 2a91e1491ef5cbc8c038f1cd9c3007fb40f56fa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:31:58 +1000 Subject: Release 2.5.2 Description... --- ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-2.5.2') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06fd949 --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.2 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.5.2 + +It is available at the usual places: + http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ +and + countrycode=xx. + http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ +and via git at + git://neil.brown.name/mdadm + http://neil.brown.name/git?p=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 2.5.2 is primarily a bugfix release over 2.5.1. +It also contains a work-around for a kernel bug which affects +hot-adding to arrays with a version-1 superblock. + +Changelog Entries: + - Fix problem with compiling with gcc-2 compilers + - Fix compile problem of post-incrmenting a variable in a macro arg. + - Stop map_dev from returning [0:0], as that breaks things. + - Add 'Array Slot' line to --examine for version-1 superblocks + to make it a bit easier to see what is happening. + - Work around bug in --add handling for version-1 superblocks + in 2.6.17 (and prior). + - Make -assemble a bit more resilient to finding strange + information in superblocks. + - Don't claim newly added spares are InSync!! (don't know why that + code was ever in there) + - Work better when no 'ftw' is available, and check to see + if current uclibc provides ftw. + - Never use /etc/mdadm.conf if --config file is given (previously + some code used one, some used the other). + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by + SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. + +NeilBrown 27th June 2006 + + -- cgit