I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 1.8.0 It is available at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/ and http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/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 1.8.0 adds: - --pid-file option to declare a file to record the pid in for --monitor --daemonise - Support for new "faulty" personalitiy (see md.4) - not submited to kernel.org yet. - support for raid0 and linear over devices larger than 2 Terabytes. - assorted bug fixes. It is hoped that the next full release of mdadm will be 2.0.0 and it will have substantially re-written handling for superblocks and array creation. In particular, it will be able to work with the new superblock format (version 1) supported by 2.6. 1.8.1 may be released soon which contains much of this functionality. Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: The School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales NeilBrown 01 November 2004 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
