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Disk striping : md v0.26b
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Jun 18 09:29:50 1995
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 15:36:08 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: ZYNGIER Marc <zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr>
Subject: Disk striping : md v0.26b
Keywords: device driver hard disk RAID striping
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.development.system
This is an announce for the 5th official version of MD, a device
driver that groups several hard disks or partitions into a single block
device, so it is now possible to have files that grow across devices. It
currently supports a linear mode, RAID-0 (striping) as well as RAID-1
(striping + mirroring). Please note that, although linear and RAID-0 mode
have now moved to BETA, RAID-1 is still VERY ALPHA.
What's new since v0.26 :
This is only a bug-fix release. People using a raid[01] devices on
md[1-3] may have problems, since previous versions were really brain-dead
regarding chunks size... For some rather funny reasons, md0 was the only
safe device. So, backup your data on md[1-3] before using 0.26b and don't
use previous versions anymore, since this is a major bug that was living
here since at least v0.17 ! Since patch is now against 1.3.1, it needs some
fixes to work with 1.2.X .
Thanks to:
All the fine people that sent me bug reports, success stories and
docs, everybody at P7 for friendship, disks, net access and Guiness (Is
Grorus the spice of life... or a waste of time ?)
Here is the enclosed lsm entry :
Begin3
Title: Multiple Devices driver
Version: v0.26b
Entered-date: 17JUN95
Description: Device driver used to group several block devices
in a single one, whatever is the interface type.
Support for RAID-0 (disk striping).
Some preliminary support for RAID-1 (incomplete).
Keywords: device driver hard disk RAID striping
Author: zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Maintained-by: zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr (Marc ZYNGIER)
Primary-site: sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr public/Linux
31k md026b.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp.mcc.ac.uk pub/linux/ALPHA/md
linux.nrao.edu pub/linux/packages/MD-driver
Platform: Linux 1.3.1 (require minor changes to work
with previous kernel versions).
Copying-policy: GPL
End
MD is avaible at :
sweet-smoke.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr:public/Linux/md026b.tar.gz
It will be mirrored soon at :
ftp.mcc.ac.uk:pub/linux/ALPHA/md/md026b.tar.gz
linux.nrao.edu:pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/md026b.tar.gz
as well as some other sites (later...).
Marc ZYNGIER <zyngier@amertume.ufr-info-p7.ibp.fr>
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