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Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
I am pleased to announce the availability of
mdadm version 1.0.0
It is available at
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
as both a source tar-ball, 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.
mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
including:
- monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
- moving spares between arrays as needed
- assembling arrays based on superblock content
- displaying details of arrays and of superblocks
The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
- feature-complete
- reasonably bug-free
- reasonably well documented.
I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....
Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'. It is the same tool,
just a different name.
Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW:
The School of Computer Science and Engineering
at
The University of New South Wales
NeilBrown 10may2002
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