[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 1.9.0-pre3 (alpha)

The EVMS team is announcing the third alpha-level release of the new 
Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 1.9.0-pre3 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-pre3 is supported on the 2.4.20 and 2.5.59 kernels.

The plugin for Snapshotting has not yet been ported to the new design, so 
this plugin has been removed from the 1.9.0-pre3 package. The AIX and OS/2 
plugins have now been ported to work with Device-Mapper. However, they are 
still undergoing testing, and may not activate their devices correctly.

Please see the INSTALL file in the 1.9.0-pre3 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-pre3. 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.

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

ChangeLog:

1.9.0-pre3 (2003-02-04):
- Third alpha release
- Clustering / HA Plug-in
  - Add evmsd, a small command line UI that simply launches the engine in
    daemon mode.
  - First successful tests of launching engine and locking all remote daemons.
  - Lots of testing and bug fixes.
- Disk Manager
  - Fixes to properly handle symlinks to device files.
- MD
  - Add option to restore original major/minor numbers of children in MD
    objects. This allows full backwards-compatibility with MD raidtools.
- Text-Mode UI
  - Initial re-write of the ncurses-based UI.
  - Still working towards full functionality.
  - Old ncurses UI is still available, but does not build by default.
- AIX
  - Add initial support for activating AIX regions using Device-Mapper.
- BSD
  - New plugin for managing disks partitioned by the BSD operating systems.
- New engine configuration and build scripts.

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



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