I am pleased to announce the availability of mdadm version 1.9.0 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 1.9.0 adds: - Fix rpm build problem (stray %) - Minor manpage updates - Change "dirty" status to "active" as it was confusing people. - --assemble --auto recognises 'standard' name and insists on using the appropriate major/minor number for them. - Remove underscore from partition names, so partitions of "foo" are "foo1", "foo2" etc (unchanged) and partitions of "f00" are "f00p1", "f00p2" etc rather than "f00_p1"... - Use "major", "minor", "makedev" macros instead of "MAJOR", "MINOR", "MKDEV" so that large device numbers work on 2.6 (providing you have glibc 2.3.3 or later). - Add some missing closes of open file descriptors. - Reread /proc/partition for every array assembled when using it to find devices, rather than only once. - Make "mdadm -Ss" stop stacked devices properly, by reversing the order in which arrays are stopped. - Improve some error messages. - Allow device name to appear before first option, so e.g. mdadm /dev/md0 -A /dev/sd[ab] works. - Assume '-Q' if just a device is given, rather than being silent. This is based on 1.8.0 and *not* on 1.8.1 which was meant to be a pre-release for the upcoming 2.0.0. The next prerelease will have a more obvious name. Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: The School of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of New South Wales NeilBrown 04 February 2005 - 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
