ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[Neil Brown]

I am pleased to announce the availability of 
   mdadm version 1.0.0
It is available at
   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/

as both a source tar-ball, 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.

mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
including:
   - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
   - moving spares between arrays as needed
   - assembling arrays based on superblock content
   - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks

The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
   - feature-complete
   - reasonably bug-free
   - reasonably well documented.

I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....

Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'.  It is the same tool,
just a different name.

Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
at
  The University of New South Wales

NeilBrown  10may2002

Is mdadm 1.0.0 working on SPARC? Thanks.

[WG]

Re: Is mdadm 1.0.0 working on SPARC? Thanks.

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday July 18, wgao@infrant.com wrote:
> Is mdadm 1.0.0 working on SPARC? Thanks.

I don't have a SPARC (running Linux) so it is hard to say...
Someone did give me access to a sparc for a while and it seemed to
work.

Why don't you try it and share your experiences with us.

There are issues with the 2.2 RAID patches on sparc.  Is that what you
are concerned about??

NeilBrown