Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[Farkas Levente <lfarkas@bppiac.hu>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> I am pleased to announce the availability of
>    mdadm version 2.4
> 
> It is available at the usual places:
>    http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
> and
>    http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
> 
> mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
> device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
> known as Software RAID arrays.
> 
> Release 2.4 primarily adds support for increasing the number of
> devices in a RAID5 array, which requires 2.6.17 (or some -rc or -mm
> prerelease).

that's realy a long avaiting feature. but at the same time wouldn't it 
be finally possible to convert a non raid partition to an raid1? it's 
avery common thing and they used to said it's even working on windows:-(

just my 2c.

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   Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"