[arch-dev-public] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.3-1

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Thu Aug 12 08:00:15 EDT 2010


Am Samstag 07 August 2010 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
> This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2
> 
> Significant changes are:
>    -
>   mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to
> 
> /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time.  This
> 	location is
> choses and most distros provide it during early
> 	boot and preserve it
> through.  As long a /dev exists and is
> 	writable, /dev/.mdadm will be
> created.
> 	Other files file communication with mdmon live here too.
> 	This
> fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
> 	udev would spin in
> early-boot.
>    -    IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on
> partitions
>         as they should only be used on whole-disks.
>    -
> Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
>    -    A
> subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with
>         --kill-subarray.
> Also subarrays can be renamed with
> 	--update-subarray
>    -    -If (or
> --incremental --fail) can be used  from udev to
>         fail and remove from
> all arrays a device which has been
> 	unplugged from the system.  i.e.
> hot-unplug-support.
>    -    "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for
> any device
>         that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but
> isn't
> 	and will automatically --re-add it
>    -    Now compile with -Wextra
> to get extra warnings.
>    -    Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation
> improvements, etcc
> 
> 
> Please signoff both arches,
> greetings
> tpowa
anyone?

-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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