Enterprise Volume Management System

> FYI: EVMS is about to be removed from Debian, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/490787 for details.

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll keep using it for now, but I guess it won't be
forever.  

It's truly sad that EVMS has fallen into neglect.  I was very enthusiastic about
it when I first ran across it back in 2005, and wrote an enthusiastic review for
OSNews.  I wrote then that "EVMS rocks".  I still think it does, but I guess its
time is passing.

Andrew.

>>> On 7/16/2008 at 2:17 AM, in message
<k0br74dsninqgs6mguqkm892u65uplf5ge@...>, Andrew Schulman
<andrex@...> wrote:
>>  FYI: EVMS is about to be removed from Debian, see
>> http://bugs.debian.org/490787 for details.
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.  I'll keep using it for now, but I guess it won't 
> be
> forever.  
> 
> It's truly sad that EVMS has fallen into neglect.  I was very enthusiastic 
> about
> it when I first ran across it back in 2005, and wrote an enthusiastic review 
> for
> OSNews.  I wrote then that "EVMS rocks".  I still think it does, but I guess 
> its
> time is passing.

  We thought the plug-in system was very cool; e.g. it was quite easy
to add a feature plugin to allow any logical volume to be tagged as an iSCSI
target, and then the plugin did all the work to configure e.g. IET to export
that LV as an iSCSI target presented LUN. Expanding a file system automatically
when the LV was expanded, was also a great enterprise feature of E-VMS
that is still unmatched (afaict) by other approaches for Linux...  


Robert


> Andrew.
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world
> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ 
> _______________________________________________
> Evms-devel mailing list
> Evms-devel@... 
> To subscribe/unsubscribe, please visit:
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/evms-devel

Il giorno mer, 16/07/2008 alle 04.17 -0400, Andrew Schulman ha scritto:
> > FYI: EVMS is about to be removed from Debian, see
> > http://bugs.debian.org/490787 for details.
> 
> Thanks for the heads up.  I'll keep using it for now, but I guess it won't be
> forever.

What do you use now?
LVM?
  
> 
> It's truly sad that EVMS has fallen into neglect.  I was very enthusiastic about
> it when I first ran across it back in 2005, and wrote an enthusiastic review for
> OSNews.  I wrote then that "EVMS rocks".  I still think it does, but I guess its
> time is passing.

Oh great!!!
And all my servers running evms?
What are doing evms developers?

Hi Mauro,

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:36:42 +0200, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> What do you use now?
> LVM?

I don't really know.  I've a few option to consider, but I've not
decided yet:

- step up as debian maintainer (but I'm not a DD, I don't know if I
  could have.  And the the week has probably past now anyway).
- move the package into a private repository and keep using EVMS (incl.
  some additional packages with evms support like yaird)
- downgrade to lvm2 & mdadm manually everywhere
- invent some clever initrd to do that transition automatically

> Oh great!!!
> And all my servers running evms?

s. above.

> What are doing evms developers?

Well, you participated in the thread on December 2007, which more or
less obvious lead nowhere.  So you should know that there aren't any
evms developers left and this outcome should come as a surprise.

Juergen