From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
Subject: Re: mdadm safe for all versions ?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:40:30 +0000
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peter.greis@ubs.com wrote:

>Morning All,
>
>Perhaps you all could clear this up for me... I have mdadm 1.5 installed (from an RPM) on SuSE 9.1 (now running kernel 2.6.8.1). Is it safe to back out 1.5 and install 1.8x from source, or does this require a kernel upgrade ?
>
Hi Peter

Neil's last mdadm announcment (about 1.8.1 on 5 Nov) said:

This is a "development" release of mdadm.  It should *not* be
considered stable and should be used primarily for testing.
The current "stable" version is 1.8.0.

And it won't need a kernel upgrade.

David