[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 1.9.0-pre2 (alpha)

The EVMS team is announcing the second alpha-level release of the new 
Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 1.9.0-pre2 is now available for 
download at the project web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms

This alpha-level release is for the new EVMS design, which is based 
on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel 
drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper.

Please note that as of this release, EVMS is undergoing very active 
development. You should use the appropriate level of caution before using 
this release! With that said, we will greatly appreciate any testing, 
feedback and comments from our users about your experiences with this new 
design.

EVMS 1.9.0-pre2 is supported on the 2.4.20 and 2.5.59 kernels.

The plugins for Snapshotting, AIX, and OS/2 have not yet been ported to the 
new design, so these plugins have been removed from the 1.9.0-pre2 package. 
As they are updated for the new design, they will be added to upcoming 
releases.

Please see the INSTALL file in the 1.9.0-pre2 package for information about 
installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is 
based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume 
activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate 
your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces.

Also, root filesystems on EVMS volumes is not currently supported with 
1.9.0-pre2. We are still working on the details of activating volumes with an 
init ramdisk or initramfs, and will add those details to the INSTALL 
instructions in a future release. If you currently have your root filesystem 
on an EVMS volume, please continue using the 1.2.1 release for the time being.

The 1.9.0-pre2 now contains most of the code required to run EVMS in an 
HA-clustering environment. We are still working on integrating all of the 
pieces, which include an HA plugin, a clustering-segment-manager, and an 
engine daemon to be run on each machine in the cluster. We are also still 
writing the installation and usage instructions, but brave users may wish to 
preview the code in engine/engine/, engine/plugins/csm/, and 
engine/plugins/ha/.

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

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


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