From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com> To: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.2.4 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:02:14 -0600 Release 0.2.4 of the Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) is now available for download at the project web site: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms Highlights for version 0.2.4 v0.2.4 - 12/11/01 - Core Engine - New feature header metadata layout - Added expand and shrink for volumes and storage objects - New plugin loading method - Allows multiple plugins per library file (suggested by Andrew Clausen) - Cleanup of unused device nodes in /dev (evms_devnode_fixup command) - GUI - Expand and shrink support - User message and alert support - New window for displaying resulting objects after creates - Lots of task code bug-fixes - Better handling of changes to the various tree-views - EVMS Command Line - Expand and shrink support - Added lots of on-line help - MD/Software RAID Plugin - STILL VERY NEW AND NOT WELL TESTED! USE WITH CAUTION! - Support for Linear personality in the kernel - Ported MD superblock manipulation and I/O to EVMS plugin - Support for Linear and RAID 1 in the engine - LVM Plugin - Added support for expanding and shrinking LVM regions - Does not support shrinking striped LVs yet. - Added lvextend and lvreduce to LVM Command Line Utilities - Safer handling of importing VGs/LVs from other machines. - OS/2 Plugin - Complete discovery of OS/2 LVM volumes - Bad Block Relocation - STILL EXPERIENCING BUGS. USE WITH CAUTION! - Support for one or two copies of BBR metadata - Switched to binary tree for in-memory remapping - New ncurses-based user-interface - Currently displays all discovered objects in format similar to the GUI. - Added cluster-enablement API stubs to kernel code - Endian-neutrality for EVMS feature headers, all EVMS feature plugins, LVM region manager, OS/2 region manager, and default segment manager. - New method for accessing the gendisk list during discovery. Uses the walk_gendisk() patch from Christoph Hellwig. - Initial support for 2.5 kernels. - Core services and local device manager converted to new bio structures - Segment manager, LVM, Snapshot, and Drive-Linking plugins work as-is. - No testing yet on remaining plugins on 2.5. Kevin Corry corryk@us.ibm.com Enterprise Volume Management System http://www.sf.net/projects/evms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/