1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
3 I am pleased to announce 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 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
12 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
13 known as Software RAID arrays.
15 2.4.1 primarily fixes an alignment problem in the version-1
16 superblock. This is an incompatible change relating to
17 raid5-reshape. Read the change log below.
20 - Honour --write-mostly when adding to an array without persistent
22 - Fix alignment problem in version-1 superblocks.
23 NOTE: This is an incompatable change affecting raid5 reshape.
24 If you want to reshape a raid5 using version-1 superblocks,
25 use 2.6.17-rc2 or later, and mdadm-2.4.1 or later.
27 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
28 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
30 NeilBrown 7th April 2006