1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4-pre1 - development release for testing only
3 I am somewhat cautious in announcing the availability of
6 It is available at the usual places:
7 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
9 http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
11 pre-release 2.4-pre1 contains support for growing a raid5 array i.e.
12 adding extra drives and restriping the whole arrays.
14 This requires a kernel more recent than 2.6.16-rc6-mm2.
16 During a restripe, there is a crtical section at the start where a
17 system crash can leave the contents of the raid5 unrecoverable. This
18 version of mdadm will backup that section, and can restore it when
19 reassembling the array after a crash.
21 Have fun, but use it carefully and report any problems.
23 NeilBrown 20th March 2006