The EVMS team is announcing its third beta series release. Package 0.9.2
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 0.9.2:
v0.9.2 - 3/09/02
- Core Engine/Kernel
- Fixed commit ordering bug.
- Added kernel config support for ia64 and s390.
- Export empty disks as compatibility volumes.
- Engine configuration change.
- Now requires --with-debug=basic to build with debugging symbols.
- GUI
- Added Feature Objects panel back to the main window.
- Context pop-up menu items to jump to an object's parent,
consuming container, and/or producing container.
- Display detailed commit-time messages in GUI status bar.
- Option panels now only show active options (with a button
to optionally show all available options).
- Added EVMS FAQ to Help menu.
- Text-mode UI
- Support for expand-container.
- Support for modify-object-properties.
- Support for FSIM operations (mkfs,unmkfs,fsck,defrag).
- Command Line
- Multi-command mode is now the default. The "-m" option has been removed,
and a new "-s" option has been created to start in single command mode.
- C style comments /* ... */ are now allowed in command files.
- Updated online help.
- New man page for command line.
- BBR Plugin
- Now uses two kernel threads for performing I/O on replacement
sectors and updating the BBR mapping table.
- Snapshot Plugin
- Changes to work with new commit-time ordering.
- Fixed kernel bug that was limiting the size of a snapshot object.
- MD Plugin
- New ioctls supported in kernel.
- Add, Remove, Activate, Deactivate, Get_Array_Info.
- Added support for these ioctls to RAID-1 and RAID-4/5 personalities.
- LVM Plugin
- Changes to snapshotting code to work with new commit-time ordering.
- Bug fixes in expand and shrink option handling.
- AIX Plugin
- Kernel discovery and I/O path bug-fixes.
- Utilities
- evms_devnode_fixup can now run in daemon mode.
Kevin Corry
[email protected]
Enterprise Volume Management System
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms