[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 2.1.0

The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise Volume 
Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download at the project 
web site:

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms

This 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 see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 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 and utilities. The INSTALL file 
also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 
kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches.

Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes 
concerning this release and it's new features.

EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. 

If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success 
stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list ([email protected]) 
or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms).

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

EVMS ChangeLog

2.1.0 (2003-06-30):
- Second major release of the new EVMS design
- New Features
  - Clustering
    - RSCT plugin - allow EVMS to operate in RSCT clusters.
  - Snapshotting
    - Reset - reset a snapshot volume without needing to
              delete and recreate the snapshot.
    - Rollback - copy the saved contents of the snapshot back to the origin.
  - Software-RAID
    - RAID-1 reconfigure
    - RAID-1 resize
    - RAID-Linear resize
    - New Multipath plugin
  - UIs
    - When saving changes, add a "Details" button to display the list of
      items that have changes to save.
  - Macintosh Segment Manager - recognize Macintosh-native disk partitions.
- Bug Fixes
  - Allow the engine to open if the lock-file cannot be created and the 
    filesystem is read-only.
  - Fix problems with using O_DIRECT on 2.4 kernels.
  - Improvements to the HA plugin due to fixes in Linux-HA.
  - Better support for discovering disks on systems using devfs.
  - Remove evms_deactivate as a UI utility. This program should only be
    used for testing.



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