From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 16:59:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4FABD7B6.1060901@redhat.com> References: <20120509112937.040f11e9@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120509112937.040f11e9@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: NeilBrown Cc: linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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