Update ChangeLog and release 2.3mdadm-2.3

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

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+Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 2.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
+
+I am pleased to announce the availability of
+   mdadm version 2.3
+
+It is available at the usual places:
+   http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/source/mdadm/
+and
+   http://www.{countrycode}.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
+
+mdadm is a tool for creating, managing and monitoring
+device arrays using the "md" driver in Linux, also
+known as Software RAID arrays.
+
+Release 2.3 fixes an assortment of bugs including the "--assemble --scan"
+crash.  It also makes mdadm better at handling very large arrays.
+Finally, it adds some functionality to support some pending kernel
+features such as raid5 reshaping.
+
+Changelog Entries:
+    -   Try /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf if /etc/mdadm.conf doesn't exist.
+	This provided compatability for Debian.
+    -   Fixed for version-1 superblock:
+	 report chunksize for raid6 and raid10
+	 make sure device size used is a multiple of chunksize
+    -   Fix "--assemble --scan" crash.
+    -   Fix completely failure to create array on ppc64
+    -   Fix memcmp in place of memcpy
+    -   A few minor improvements to online help
+    -   Clean up usage of 'long long' for used-size of devices, so
+	that it is possible to create a raid1 of 7TB devices!
+    -   Make internal bitmaps work on 7TB raid1 arrays.
+    -   Provide error message if --examine doesn't find any superblock.
+    -   Report 'reshape' status in --examine - this depends on kernel
+	patches that are not yet finalised.
+    -   Report bitmap status in --detail and --examine
+    -   Default to v1 superblocks instead of v0.90 if the array
+	is too big for 0.90 to handle.
+    -   Sort the output of "mdadm --detail --scan" so that it is
+	in a suitable order for assembling arrays. i.e. components come
+	before an array that they are part of.
+    -   Print size of large reiserfs array properly went warning of
+        possible confilcts.
+
+Development of mdadm is sponsored by
+ SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
+
+NeilBrown  2nd February 2006
+