[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 2.5.2

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.2 release of the Enterprise Volume  
Management System. This is the second maintenance release in the EVMS 2.5.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 2.5.2 are now available for 
download at the project web site:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

EVMS 2.5.2 is supported on 2.6.11-rc5 and 2.4.21 through 2.4.29 kernels.

Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.2 package for 
installation instructions and other notes. I mean it. Really. There are 
important notes about the new features that you need to read if you're going 
to use them.

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://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc/
http://evms.sourceforge.net/


EVMS Changelog
==============
2.5.2 (2/28/2004)
- Bug fixes
  - Engine
    - Properly clean up empty directories in the /dev/evms/ tree.
  - MD Plugin
    - When removing a failed disk, need to ioctl to the MD driver to make
      sure it drops its reference to the disk.
    - When a disk is marked faulty and a spare is automatically activated,
      the faulty disk's number needs to be updated to match the kernel's view.
    - Check for array syncing status when getting region info.
    - Compensate for differences in GET_DISK_INFO ioctl between 2.4
      and 2.6 kernels.
    - Fix number of entries in MD superblock.
    - Use ffs instead of ffz. (Stefan Bader)
    - Fix compile errors with older gcc's.
  - Snapshots
    - Fix a segfault that could occur when rolling-back a snapshot that
      isn't made into an EVMS volume.
  - evms_metadata_restore
    - Fix some macro definitions.
- Init-Ramdisk
  - Changes to linuxrc to be more backwards-compatible with older EVMS
    initrd images.
- Updates to INSTALL guide.


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