From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com> To: evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.9.1 (Beta) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:22:27 -0600 Cc: evms-announce@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The EVMS team is announcing its second beta series release. Package 0.9.1 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 0.9.1: v0.9.1 - 2/15/02 - GUI - New dialog help windows. - Support for mkfs, unmkfs, fsck, and defrag operations as provided by FSIMs. - Better descriptions of selection lists. - Display mount points in the Volumes view. - Display a startup/splash window during engine discovery. - Lots of UI cleanup and bug fixes. - Text-mode UI - Fixed support for adding/removing objects to/from containers. - Now supports same command line options as the GUI. - Segment Manager - Recognizes BSD, Solaris-x86, and Unixware partitions in the engine. - MD Plugin - RAID 4/5 kernel support. - Supports failover to spare disk or running in degraded mode. - Limited testing so far - be gentle. - RAID 4/5 creation and deletion. - Hot add/remove support for RAID-1. - AIX Plugin - Complete region discovery in the engine. - LVM Plugin - Fixed some potential memory overwrite bugs in the engine. - LVM Utilities - Removed evms_pvcreate and evms_pvremove. No longer necessary to explicitly create PVs before creating or expanding VGs, or to explicitly remove PVs after removing or shrinking VGs. - Kernel - Improved support for removable and hot-pluggable media. - Improved support for building EVMS as kernel modules. 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/