From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shaohua Li Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.0 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 08:52:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20170111165241.yavdwc57v6yodx7g@kernel.org> References: <1cd97490-e650-d98b-466a-095292dc5b98@gmail.com> <58751E90.5090306@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <58751E90.5090306@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bruce Dubbs Cc: Jes Sorensen , "linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" , LKML , "Brown, Neil" List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:49:04AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jes Sorensen wrote: > > I am pleased to announce the availability of > > mdadm version 4.0 > > > > It is available at the usual places: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ > > and via git at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/ > > > > The update in major version number primarily indicates this is a > > release by it's new maintainer. In addition it contains a large number > > of fixes in particular for IMSM RAID and clustered RAID support. In > > addition this release includes support for IMSM 4k sector drives, > > failfast and better documentation for journaled RAID. > > Thank you for the new release. Unfortunately I get 9 failures running the > test suite: > > tests/00raid1... FAILED > tests/07autoassemble... FAILED > tests/07changelevels... FAILED > tests/07revert-grow... FAILED > tests/07revert-inplace... FAILED > tests/07testreshape5... FAILED > tests/10ddf-fail-twice... FAILED > tests/20raid5journal... FAILED > tests/10ddf-incremental-wrong-order... FAILED Yep, several tests usually fail. It appears some checks aren't always good. At least the 'check' function for reshape/resync isn't reliable in my test, I saw 07changelevelintr fails frequently. Thanks, Shaohua