From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:36:27 +0200 Message-ID: <442BA69B.3020904@bppiac.hu> References: <17451.24526.329349.962585@cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <17451.24526.329349.962585@cse.unsw.edu.au> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"