Hi, I've got some very sad news to share with you - over Christmas, Shaohua Li passed away after battling cancer for most of last year. As you know, Shaohua acted as the maintainer for md. He remained dedicated to that through the difficult times. With his passing, we obviously have a void that needs to be filled. For now, I'll act as interim maintainer for md until we can find a good permanent solution. I'll queue up reviewed patches in a separate branch, in the block tree, and help review fixes. I'm subscribed to linux-raid, but please do CC me as well. -- Jens Axboe