I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 1.3.0 It is available at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/utils/raid/mdadm/ as a source tar-ball and (at the first site) 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. Release 1.3.0 is a bug-fix and minor feature update release over 1.2.0. Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: The School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales NeilBrown 29 Jul 2003 ------------------------------------------------------- Changes Prior to 1.3.0 release - Make 'size' and unsigned long in Create to allow creation of larger arrays. - Explicitly flag spare devices as 'spare' in --detail and --examine output. Previously they simply had no flags lists. - Make MailCmd (for monitor) configurable in Makefile, and default to "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t". Also split out the warning related flags into CWFLAGS for easier build configurability. - Minor bugfix in Manage code. - --monitor now notices and reports degraded arrays at startup using "DegradedArray" event, and also has a --oneshot option to only report DegradedArrays, and then exit. - Small man-page clarification w.r.t. raid levels and raid4 in particular. - Disallow creation of arrays with only one device as this is probably a mistake. --force will override this check. - Correct some misleading documentation in the "mdadm --create --help" message. - Ignore chunksize if raid1 or multipath. - Explicit statement in man page that raid-disks cannot be changed after array is created. - Improve message when attempting to start an array with insufficient devices. Instead of required the array to be full, we only require it has as many active devices as last time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
