2002-03-09 16:47:42

by Kevin Corry

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Subject: [ANNOUNCE] EVMS Release 0.9.2 (Beta)

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