From 209b742f4d530706811463354c29265de2023c01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:52:28 +1100 Subject: Release 2-5-5 --- ANNOUNCE-2.5.5 | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ANNOUNCE-2.5.5 (limited to 'ANNOUNCE-2.5.5') diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-2.5.5 b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73eea4e --- /dev/null +++ b/ANNOUNCE-2.5.5 @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux + +I am pleased to announce the availability of + mdadm version 2.5.5 + +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 2.5.5 is a bugfix release over 2.5.4. +Hopefully the last before 2.6. + +Changelog Entries: + - Don't #include linux/blkpg.h as that isn't safe. Just + include the content literally. + - Reduce maximum bitmap usage when working with bitmap files, + so that a only single-page allocations are made, even on + 64bit hosts with 4K pages. + - Close stray fd in mdassemble so that it can assemble stacked + devices + - If mdassemble finds an array already assembled, it marks it + read-write. + - Remove error in md_open if array is already active. This isn't + needed and gets in the ways if an array was created e.g. in + initramfs, but device doesn't yet exist in /dev. + - When --assemble --scan is run, if all arrays that could be found + have already been started, don't report an error. + - Fix a couple of bugs related to raid10 and the new 'offset' layout. + - Improve error message when a wrong '--update' option is given. + +Development of mdadm is sponsored by + SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. + +NeilBrown 23rd October 2006 -- cgit