[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 2.3.1

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.1 release of the Enterprise Volume  
Management System. This is the first maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x
series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well as 
to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source 
code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.1 are now available for 
download at the project web site:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

EVMS 2.3.1 is supported on 2.6.5-rc3 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.25 kernels.

Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.1 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
==============
2.3.1 (3/31/2004)
- Bug-fixes for the 2.3.0 release.
  - Engine
    - Fixes in API-remoting code.
    - Fix in make_directory for top-level directories.
    - Start pthreads detached. [Steve Landherr]
    - Use waitpid to terminate the daemon worker process. [Steve Landherr]
    - Use usleep instead of sleep to avoid being woken up by a signal.
    - Improved error checking when activating objects.
  - Cluster Segment Manager
    - Improved options for creation and reassignment.
    - Add rename capability.
    - Fixes in segment-discard.
  - HA Cluster Manager
    - Improved handling of membership events.
    - Improved method for launching the failover script.
    - Fix seg-fault in processing list of threads waiting for responses.
    - Better error logging.
    - Always install evms_failover. [Matt Zimmerman]
  - Software-RAID
    - Fix in removing stale disks.
    - Wait for recovery process to begin before rediscovery.
    - Fix segfault when discovering RAID-linear and RAID-0 regions
      with missing children.
  - Multipath
    - Improved path recovery detection.
    - Fixes and improvements in delete and discard.
  - LVM
    - Fix seg-fault while expanding striped regions. [Steve Landherr]
  - S/390 Segment Manager
    - Build fix [Bastian Blank, Matt Zimmerman]
  - Disk
    - Improved search for sysfs.
  - Snapshot
    - Disallow creation of snapshots of cluster-shared volumes.
- Minor changes to engine logging.
  - Move ENTRY_EXIT before DEBUG
  - Print log level as part of message timestamp.
  - Note: Run the EVMS UIs with "-d debug" instead of "-d everything" now to
    generate a detailed trace log.
- Remove get_dev_num utility.
- Updated kernel patches and documentation.


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