this release adds some minor fixes and a new (nonintrusive) feature:
raidsetfaulty. With raidsetfaulty an active disk can be marked as faulty
(surprise) and thus removed from the RAID set. This utility is of course
dangerous: no array should stay in a 'faulty' state for a long time, a
disk failure in that period of time is not recoverable and data might be
lost. Nevertheless this utility is a useful extension of administration
and hot-plug utilities. [raidsetfaulty is based on rewritten patches from
Harald Hoyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
you can find the patches raid0145-19990824-2.0.37.gz,
raid0145-19990824-2.2.11.gz and raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz in the
usual alpha directory:
http://www.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
[mirrors should have synced up by the time you receive this email]
Let me know if i've missed something - reports, suggestions welcome.
enjoy,
-- mingo
