Re: [Evms-announce] [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 1.0.1

[Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:18:10AM -0500, Kevin Corry wrote:
> The EVMS team is announcing the next full release of the Enterprise Volume 
> Management System. Package 1.0.1 is now available for download at the project 
> web site:
> http://www.sf.net/projects/evms
> Version 1.0.1 is primarily minor bug fixes for the previous version (1.0.0), 
> as noted below.
> 
> This release again contains an extra package for experimental File System 
> Interface Module (FSIM) support. Along with the libparted-based FSIM, there 
> is also a new JFS FSIM. The parted FSIM requires parted version 1.6.x, and 
> the JFS FSIM requires version 1.0.9 or later of the JFS utilities.

It would be nice if the jfs fsim linked against libjfs, rather than
exec()ing mkfs & friends.

(mkfs should be a frontend of libjfs)

Notice you have no error handling, etc. now?   Also, the "total system"
seems more complicated now.  (For example: how are you going to
interface the resizer, so you can find out the min/max sizes, etc?)

Also, while I'm at it: you didn't like my idea for interfacing
the parted exception system with evms properly?  I even wrote the code
for you (without testing it)... I didn't see a reply to my mail...
you(s) didn't like it?

BTW: what do you think of how libparted interfaces with libreiserfs?
There has been a lot of work, and it has all been merged properly now.
I think EVMS should do something similar.  Have a look in
libparted/fs_reiserfs.

Andrew