From:	 Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To:	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.0.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
Date:	 Fri, 10 May 2002 14:17:12 +1000 (EST)



I am pleased to announce the availability of 
   mdadm version 1.0.0
It is available at
   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/

as both a source tar-ball, as an SRPM, and as an RPM for i386.

mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
known as Software RAID arrays.

mdadm incorporates much of the functionality of raidtools, though with
a very different interface, and also provides extra functionality
including:
   - monitoring array and alerting admin staff of issues
   - moving spares between arrays as needed
   - assembling arrays based on superblock content
   - displaying details of arrays and of superblocks

The release of version 1 is intended to suggest that mdadm is
   - feature-complete
   - reasonably bug-free
   - reasonably well documented.

I hope not to make another release until md driver enhancements
necessitate it, but we will have to wait and see....

Note: mdadm was previously known as 'mdctl'.  It is the same tool,
just a different name.

Development of mdadm is sponsored by CSE@UNSW: 
  The School of Computer Science and Engineering
at
  The University of New South Wales

NeilBrown  10may2002
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