*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc8 ***
*** Announcement: dmraid 1.0.0.rc8 ***dmraid 1.0.0.rc8 is available at
http://people.redhat.com:/heinzm/sw/dmraid/ in source tarball, source rpm and i386 rpm (with shared and static dietlibc binary).
This release fixes a stripe size bug in NVidia and avoids using the Silicon Image incarnation number for RAID name creation (should avoid some sets not grouping properly).
It adds an '--ignorelocking' in order to allow dmraid to run in early boot where no read/write access to /var is given.
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
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!
Call for testers:
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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:
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The author is reachable at <[email protected]>.
For test results, mapping information, discussions, questions, patches, enhancement requests and the like, please subscribe and mail to <[email protected]>.
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Regards,
Heinz -- The LVM Guy --
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Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH
Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11
56242 Marienrachdorf Germany
[email protected] +49 2626 141200
FAX 924446
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