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