[Evms-announce] EVMS Release 2.5.3

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.5.3 release of the Enterprise Volume  
Management System. This is the third 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 2.5.3 are now available for 
download at the project web site:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

EVMS 2.5.3 is supported on recent 2.6 and 2.4.22 through 2.4.31 kernels.

Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.5.3 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/
http://evms.sourceforge.net/



EVMS Changelog
==============
2.5.3 (6/10/2005)
- Bug fixes
  - Engine
    - Marked all deleted volumes as needing deactivation.
    - Use LIST_FOR_EACH_SAFE when walking object lists during commit.
    - Fix a small memory leak when allocating multipath target structures.
  - Replace Plugin
    - Corrected checks during discovery for replace objects.
  - MD Plugin
    - Fix stack corruption bug in MD plugin. [Marcus Meissner]
    - Fix memory corruption bug for RAID-5 regions running in degraded
      mode. [Gleb Stiblo]
    - Remove left over check when comparing DM tables for multipath objects
      that was causing the comparisons to always fail.
  - LVM2 Plugin
    - Fix stack corruption bug in LVM2 plugin. [Thomas Fehr]
    - Fix "packed" structure definition in LVM2 plugin. [sannes]
    - Round up instead of down to nearest PE-size when creating an LVM2
      region.
  - Disk and DOS Plugins
    - Correctly handle HP/Compaq disk array names. These disks usually have
      names like "cciss/c0d0" or "ida/c0d0". Their segments will contain a "p"
      before the segment number, to correspond with the commonly-used names.
  - Command-Line UI
    - Improved display formatting for the CLI.
- Minor improvements.
  - When mounting a volume in the GUI or Ncurses, check /etc/fstab for the
    initial suggested mountpoint.
  - Limit the number of open file-descriptors in the disk plugin. This also
    adds a new "max_open_disks" option in the config file.
- Updates to documentation, including updates to the CLI man page
  and help text.


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