Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 05/09/12 03:29, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> I am pleased to announce the availability of
>    mdadm version 3.2.4
> 
> It is available at the usual places, now including github:
>    countrycode=xx.
>    http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
> and via git at
>    git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
>    git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
>    http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
> 
> This release is largely a bugfix release for the 3.2 series with many
> minor fixes with little or no impact.
> 
> "--oneline" log of changes is below.  Some notable ones are:
> 
>  - --offroot argument to improve interactions between mdmon and initrd
>  - --prefer argument to select which /dev names to display in some
>    circumstances.
>  - relax restructions on when "--add" will be allowed
>  - Fix bug with adding write-intent-bitmap to active array
>  - Now defaults to "/run/mdadm" for storing run-time files.
> 
> Upgrading is encouraged.

I can only second this!

For those who are running Fedora and would like to help testing. I just
pushed mdadm-3.2.4 to Fedora 15/16/17/rawhide. you should be able to get
it from updates-testing shortly.

Please upgrade and test!

Cheers,
Jes