From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com> To: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.9.0 (Beta) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:44:05 -0600 Cc: evms-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The EVMS team is officially announcing its first Beta release. Package 0.9.0 of the Enterprise Volume Management System is now available for download at the project web site: http://www.sf.net/projects/evms Highlights for version 0.9.0: v0.9.0 - 1/17/02 - Core Engine - New APIs for Filesystem Interface Modules. - Support for setting properties of volumes, objects, and containers. - New user-interface tasks. - Expand containers, mkfs, fsck, defrag. - Improved user-space discovery algorithm. - GUI - Support for expanding containers and removing objects from containers. - Support for setting object properties. - Command Line - Support for expanding, shrinking containers. - LVM Plugin - Supports adding/removing objects (PVs) from containers in the GUI or the EVMS command line. - MD Plugin - Runtime support for Linear, RAID-0, and RAID-1. - Sync and spare-failover available for RAID-1. - Hot-add for RAID-1 still under development. - Engine support for Linear, RAID-0, and RAID-1. - Discovery, creation, deletion. - Engine discovery support for RAID-5. No creation yet. - Recommended to NOT use the EVMS MD plugin and the original MD driver in the same kernel. - EVMS Drivelinking Plugin - Support for missing elements in a drive-link. Exports the drive-link in read-only mode to allow recovery of data on the remaining elements. - AIX Plugin - Minimal discovery in user-space. Constructs all containers without exporting any regions. - Text-Mode Interface - All code and features added. Needs additional testing. - Kernel - Supports specifying an EVMS volume as a "root=" kernel boot-parameter. - Lots of testing and bug-fixes. 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/