[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 2.2.0

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.2.0 release of the Enterprise Volume 
Management System. This release includes several new features, 
plugins, and enhancements to the 2.0 series. The source code package and 
sample init-ramdisk image for 2.2.0 are now available for download at the 
project web site:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

EVMS 2.2.0 is supported on 2.4.19 through 2.4.22 kernels, as well as 
2.6.0-test9.

Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.2.0 package for 
installation instructions and other notes. 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
=============

2.2.0 (11/12/2003):
- Snapshot Expand
  - Increase available storage space for a snapshot on the fly.
- New DriveLink plugin (same metadata format)
- Clustering Enhancements
  - CSM disk-group name-spaces.
  - Don't allow new objects or containers to span CSM disk-groups.
- Online Move
  - Certain move operations can now be done with the volume mounted.
    - Object replace
    - Segment-manager moves (DOS, GPT, S390)
  - LVM regions must still be moved offline.
- Add --devnum option to evms_activate to print the device-number of a
  specified volume.
- Check for /proc and /sys at engine-open.
  - Mount if they aren't already mounted (and unmount at engine-close).
- New installation instructions.
- Bug-Fixes
  - Rewrite RAID-1 and RAID-5 failure handling.
  - Correctly link with dlist during build process.
  - Command-Line UI output formatting fixes.
  - Check device-number as well as name when checking if a volume is mounted.
  - Fix segfaults in MD plugin when checking for plugin-functions.
- Cleanups
  - Consolidated several common plugin macros into one place.
  - Only export the plugin-record symbol from the plugin shared-objects.
  - Fix -q option for evms_activate.


Changes since -pre7
===================
- Bug fix for *offline* move in segment manager plugins.
- Improved "time-remaining" estimates for online move and replace.
- Code cleanups
- Documentation updates

Changes since -pre6
===================
- Bug fixes
  - Online move and object replace
    - Avoid a deadlock when starting certain online copy operations.
    - Better "time-remaining" estimates.
  - MD
    - Look in /proc/mdstat to see if RAID arrays are syncing.
    - Prompt the user to remove a disk that has just been marked faulty.
  - Drivelinking
    - When a child-object seems to be missing, allow the user to specify which
      object should be added.
- Code cleanups

Changes since -pre5
===================
- Bug fixes
  - "Mark faulty" for RAID-1 objects
  - Online object replace
  - Improved support for nbd and drbd devices
  - BBR segment activation
  - RAID + LVM discovery ordering
  - Other MD/RAID fixes and cleanups
- Updated kernel patches
- Code cleanups
- Documentation updates

Changes since -pre4
===================
- Bug fixes:
  - Activation sequence for snapshots on 2.6 kernels.
  - Setup for online copies.
  - Better checking for when an MD region can be modified.
  - Proper size checking when adding a new spare object to a RAID region.
- Code cleanups.
- Documentation updates.

Changes since -pre3
===================
- Bug fixes for:
  - Online move and replace
  - RAID-1 and RAID-5 error handling
  - RAID-1 and RAID-linear resize
  - Shrinking containers
  - "Time-remaining" progress indicators
- Updated kernel patches for 2.6.
- Documentation updates

Changes since -pre2
===================
- Bug Fixes
  - Engine: correctly detect errors when expanding or shrinking a container.
  - LVM plugin: make sure each PV is at least big enough to hold the
                LVM metadata.
  - Device-Mapper
    - creating device tables.
    - building snapshot as a module for 2.6.
- Rebuild kernel patches for 2.6.0-test9
- Documentation updates

Changes since -pre1
===============
- Bug fixes for:
  - Online replace
  - RAID-1
  - RAID-5
  - GUI window behavior
- Allow multiple simultaneous ioctls to Device-Mapper.
- Use the 32-bit ioctl to get disk geometry (instead of the 16-bit version).
- Documentation updates



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