From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
To: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: evms-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.9.0 (Beta)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:44:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02011717440501.29109@boiler> (raw)
The EVMS team is officially announcing its first Beta release. Package 0.9.0
of the Enterprise Volume Management System is now available for download at
the project web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
Highlights for version 0.9.0:
v0.9.0 - 1/17/02
- Core Engine
- New APIs for Filesystem Interface Modules.
- Support for setting properties of volumes, objects, and containers.
- New user-interface tasks.
- Expand containers, mkfs, fsck, defrag.
- Improved user-space discovery algorithm.
- GUI
- Support for expanding containers and removing objects from containers.
- Support for setting object properties.
- Command Line
- Support for expanding, shrinking containers.
- LVM Plugin
- Supports adding/removing objects (PVs) from containers in the GUI or the
EVMS command line.
- MD Plugin
- Runtime support for Linear, RAID-0, and RAID-1.
- Sync and spare-failover available for RAID-1.
- Hot-add for RAID-1 still under development.
- Engine support for Linear, RAID-0, and RAID-1.
- Discovery, creation, deletion.
- Engine discovery support for RAID-5. No creation yet.
- Recommended to NOT use the EVMS MD plugin and the original MD driver in
the same kernel.
- EVMS Drivelinking Plugin
- Support for missing elements in a drive-link. Exports the drive-link in
read-only mode to allow recovery of data on the remaining elements.
- AIX Plugin
- Minimal discovery in user-space. Constructs all containers without
exporting any regions.
- Text-Mode Interface
- All code and features added. Needs additional testing.
- Kernel
- Supports specifying an EVMS volume as a "root=" kernel boot-parameter.
- Lots of testing and bug-fixes.
Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com
Enterprise Volume Management System
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
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