From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264299AbUGFTJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:09:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264305AbUGFTJj (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:09:39 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51591 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264299AbUGFTJg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:09:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:09:35 +0200 From: Heinz Mauelshagen To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 available at http://people.redhat.com:~heinzm/sw/dmraid Message-ID: <20040706190935.GA26264@redhat.com> Reply-To: mauelshagen@redhat.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 *** dmraid 1.0.0-rc1 available at http://people.redhat.com:/~heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source and i386 rpm. dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays properties of software RAID sets (ie. ATARAID) and contained MSDOS partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel. The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6: Highpoint HPT37X Highpoint HPT45X Promise FastTrack Silicon Image Medley These ATARAID types can be discovered only in this version: Intel Software RAID LSI Logic MegaRAID Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely. Thanks. See file README, which comes with the source tarball for prerequisites to run this software and further instructions on installing and using dmraid! Call for testers: ----------------- I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the ATARAID data is proper. You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use option -E with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata (see 'man dmraid')! This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your valuable data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in order to make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write access. The author is reachable at . For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches, enhancement requests, free beer offers and the like, please subscribe and mail to . -- Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@RedHat.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-