[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 1.2.1

The EVMS team is announcing the next stable release of the Enterprise Volume 
Management System. Package 1.2.1 is now available for download at the project 
web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms

This release is primarily bug-fixes and minor enhancements for the 1.2.0 
release, based on user feedback.

EVMS 1.2.1 has full support for the 2.4 kernel, and includes patches for most 
kernels up to 2.4.20. 2.5 kernels are no longer supported for 1.2.1.

Please send any questions, problem reports or bugs to the EVMS mailing list: 
[email protected].

v1.2.1 - 12/17/02
Kernel Core
 - Change several ioctl packet definitions so all fields are fixed-size and
   all fields are properly aligned for 64-bit architectures.
 - Always use per-volume request queues.
 - Fix bug when deciding whether to hard-delete or soft-delete volumes at
   shutdown time. This fixes the problem of RAID-1 root volumes always
   resyncing on reboot.
GUI
 - Allow starting a "Create Feature Object" task from context popup.
 - Set keyboard focus on first entry field in options dialog that needs input.
 - Show list of plugins that are able to actually do a particular task.
 - "Pre-select" acceptable objects for certain tasks when only one acceptable
   object.
 - Dynamically display only those views that actually have objects in them.
 - Follow GNOME Human Interface Guideliness for message popup alert dialogs.
 - Bugfix to message window handling that would cause segfault.
 - Increase floating point precision of spinbutton widget used in options
   dialog.
 - Cleanup views (consistent column ordering and remove superfluous info).
 - Fix some locale settings.
Command Line
 - Add a "-b" flag to indicate batch mode.
   - In this mode, all messages requiring user-interaction will automatically
     use the default selection.
LVM Plugin
 - Some LVM LVs created with older versions (0.8) of the Sistina tools do
   not have sector-aligned LV structures. Add code to detect this misalignment
   and read the LV structures from the correct place.
Snapshot Plugin
 - The VFS lock patch only allows one filesystem at a time to be locked and
   flushed. This means that only one snapshot volume can be created during a
   single commit/rediscover or the VFS locking code will deadlock. Add a flag
   to the snapshot engine plugin to prevent more than one snapshot from being
   activated at a time. In order to activate multiple snapshots, the user must
   now force a commit between each one.
BBR Plugin
 - The ext3 filesystem accesses fields in the buffer-heads after they have
   been submitted but before they have completed. This breaks due to the way
   BBR hooks each I/O to watch for write failures. Change BBR to allocate a
   whole new buffer-head for each I/O that it has to track and save the
   original buffer-head in private data.
MD Plugin
 - Fix segfault in RAID-1 sync daemon. Patch suggested by Rory Bolt.
 - Clean up duplicated info in kernel log messages.
 - Use a separate kill-sectors list for each raid5 object in the engine.
Filesystem Interface Modules
 - If a filesystem's utilities are missing or out-of-date, still load the
   FSIM plugin, but disallow actions such as mkfs, fsck, and resize. This
   prevents the FSIMs from complaining each time the engine is opened.
 - Reiser FSIM: Don't try to use the "label" option with older versions of
   the ReiserFS utilities.
Disk Manager Engine Plugin
 - Added a read-cache, which cuts engine discovery time by 66%.
AIX Engine Plugin
 - Several bug fixes and cleanups.
Dlist
 - Several plugins were fixed to pass the correct tags to Dlist when
   inserting objects into lists.

-- 
Kevin Corry
[email protected]
http://evms.sourceforge.net/


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