1 Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.5.4 - 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/
10 http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
12 git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
13 http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
15 mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
16 device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
17 known as Software RAID arrays.
19 Release 2.5.4 is a bugfix release over 2.5.3
22 - When creating devices in /dev/md/ create matching symlinks
23 from /dev. e.g. /dev/md0 -> /dev/md/0.
24 Allow this to be disabled in mdadm.conf or on command line.
25 - Fix some endian-ness issues with version-1 superblocks (affects
27 - Fix endian problem with 'bitmap' metadata
28 - Allow a number (of partitions) after the 'yes' option to --auto=
29 This is particularly useful in the 'create' line in mdadm.conf.
30 - Remove partitions from any whole device that is made part of
31 an md array. This is a work-around for annoying messages
32 when the first block on some drive accidentally looks like a
35 Development of mdadm is sponsored by
36 SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
38 NeilBrown 13th October 2006