*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 ***

[Roland]

Dear Heinz,

Thank you very much for this update. My Highpoint (hpt37x) with raid 1, 1 
drive per channel, works now. I dont get the "raid is broken" message 
anymore.
I use the amd64 port of Debian, with kernel 2.6.10.

thanks
Roland



Am Dienstag, 1. März 2005 20:11 schrieb Heinz Mauelshagen:
>                *** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 ***
>
> dmraid 1.0.0.rc6 is available at
> http://people.redhat.com:/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source tarball,
> source rpm and i386 rpms (shared, static and dietlibc).
>
> This release introduces support for VIA Software RAID.
>
> dmraid (Device-Mapper Raid tool) discovers, [de]activates and displays
> properties of software RAID sets (i.e. ATARAID) and contained DOS
> partitions using the device-mapper runtime of the 2.6 kernel.
>
> The following ATARAID types are supported on Linux 2.6:
>
> Highpoint HPT37X
> Highpoint HPT45X
> Intel Software RAID
> LSI Logic MegaRAID
> NVidia NForce
> Promise FastTrack
> Silicon Image Medley
> VIA Software RAID *** NEW ***
>
> Please provide insight to support those metadata formats completely.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> See files README and CHANGELOG, which come with the source tarball for
> prerequisites to run this software, further instructions on installing
> and using dmraid!
>
> CHANGELOG is contained below for your convenience as well.
>
>
> Call for testers:
> -----------------
>
> I need testers with the above ATARAID types, to check that the mapping
> created by this tool is correct (see options "-t -ay") and access to the
> ATARAID data is proper.
>
> In case you have a different ATARAID solution from those listed above,
> please feel free to contact me about supporting it in dmraid.
>
> You can activate your ATARAID sets without danger of overwriting
> your metadata, because dmraid accesses it read-only unless you use
> option -E together with -r in order to erase ATARAID metadata
> (see 'man dmraid')!
>
> This is a release candidate version so you want to have backups of your
> valuable data *and* you want to test accessing your data read-only first in
> order to make sure that the mapping is correct before you go for read-write
> access.
>
>
> Contacts:
> ---------
>
> The author is reachable at <Mauelshagen at RedHat.com>.
>
> For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches,
> enhancement requests and the like, please subscribe and mail to
> <ataraid-list at redhat.com>.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --
>
>
> CHANGELOG:
> ---------
>
> Changelog from dmraid 1.0.0-rc5f to 1.0.0.rc6  2005.02.28
>
> FIXES:
> ------
> o sil status()
> o _sil_read() used LOG_NOTICE rather than LOG_INFO in order to
>   avoid messages about valid metadata areas being displayed
>   during "dmraid -vay".
> o isw, sil filed metadata offset on "-r -D" in sectors rather than in
> bytes. o isw needed dev_sort() to sort RAID devices in sets correctly.
> o pdc metadata format handler name creation. Lead to
>   wrong RAID set grouping logic in some configurations.
> o dos.c: partition table code fixes by Paul Moore
> o _free_dev_pointers(): fixed potential OOB error
> o hpt37x_check: deal with raid_disks = 1 in mirror sets
> o pdc_check: status & 0x80 doesn't always show a failed device;
>   removed that check for now. Status definitions needed.
> o sil addition of RAID sets to global list of sets
> o sil spare device memory leak
> o group_set(): removal of RAID set in case of error
> o hpt37x: handle total_secs > device size
> o allow -p with -f
> o enhanced error message by checking target type against list of
>   registered target types
>
>
> FEATURES:
> ---------
> o VIA metadata format handler
> o added RAID10 to lsi metadata format handler
> o "dmraid -rD": file device size into {devicename}_{formatname}.size
> o "dmraid -tay": pretty print multi-line tables ala "dmsetup table"
> o "dmraid -l": display supported RAID levels + manual update
>
>
> MISCELANIOUS:
> ------------
>
> o more inline comments
> o libdmraid_init() now returns lib context
> o check_set() enhanced to do RAID set stack unrolling and
>   to check correct number of devices in sets; saves code in
>   metadata format handlers
> o introduced read_raid_dev() to further reduce metadata format handler code
> o optimized parse_table()
> o updated dmraid manual
> o devmapper.c: check target type registered before trying to load table
> record o misc.c: avoid find_percent().
>
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