From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
To: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.2.4
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:02:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01121309021400.06777@boiler> (raw)
Release 0.2.4 of the Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) is now
available for download at the project web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
Highlights for version 0.2.4
v0.2.4 - 12/11/01
- Core Engine
- New feature header metadata layout
- Added expand and shrink for volumes and storage objects
- New plugin loading method
- Allows multiple plugins per library file (suggested by Andrew Clausen)
- Cleanup of unused device nodes in /dev (evms_devnode_fixup command)
- GUI
- Expand and shrink support
- User message and alert support
- New window for displaying resulting objects after creates
- Lots of task code bug-fixes
- Better handling of changes to the various tree-views
- EVMS Command Line
- Expand and shrink support
- Added lots of on-line help
- MD/Software RAID Plugin
- STILL VERY NEW AND NOT WELL TESTED! USE WITH CAUTION!
- Support for Linear personality in the kernel
- Ported MD superblock manipulation and I/O to EVMS plugin
- Support for Linear and RAID 1 in the engine
- LVM Plugin
- Added support for expanding and shrinking LVM regions
- Does not support shrinking striped LVs yet.
- Added lvextend and lvreduce to LVM Command Line Utilities
- Safer handling of importing VGs/LVs from other machines.
- OS/2 Plugin
- Complete discovery of OS/2 LVM volumes
- Bad Block Relocation
- STILL EXPERIENCING BUGS. USE WITH CAUTION!
- Support for one or two copies of BBR metadata
- Switched to binary tree for in-memory remapping
- New ncurses-based user-interface
- Currently displays all discovered objects in format similar to the GUI.
- Added cluster-enablement API stubs to kernel code
- Endian-neutrality for EVMS feature headers, all EVMS feature plugins, LVM
region manager, OS/2 region manager, and default segment manager.
- New method for accessing the gendisk list during discovery. Uses the
walk_gendisk() patch from Christoph Hellwig.
- Initial support for 2.5 kernels.
- Core services and local device manager converted to new bio structures
- Segment manager, LVM, Snapshot, and Drive-Linking plugins work as-is.
- No testing yet on remaining plugins on 2.5.
Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com
Enterprise Volume Management System
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
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