[Evms-announce] (no subject)

[Steve D. <st...@us...>]

The EVMS team is announcing the 2.3.4 release of the Enterprise Volume
Management System. This is the fourth maintenance release in the EVMS 2.3.x
series, and is primarily intended to fix some recent bug-reports, as well
as
to update to the most recent kernel and Device-Mapper releases. The source
code package and sample init-ramdisk image for 2.3.4 are now available for
download at the project web site:

http://evms.sourceforge.net/

EVMS 2.3.4 is supported on 2.6.6 and 2.4.20 through 2.4.26 kernels.

Please see the INSTALL and README files in the 2.3.4 package for
installation instructions and other notes. If you have any questions, find
any
bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the
EVMS
mailing list (evm...@li...) or visit the EVMS IRC channel
(irc.freenode.net, #evms).

--
Steve Dobbelstein
st...@us...
http://evms.sourceforge.net/


EVMS ChangeLog
==============
2.3.4 (6/3/20004)
- Bug-fixes for the 2.3.3 release.
  - Engine
    - Add ability to expand a volume/filesystem in the event a volume's
      object is replaced by a larger object.
    - Don't allow operations on compatibility volumes that have their
      corresponding kernel volume mounted.
    - Use pthread IDs instead of PIDs in the log timestamps.
    - Fix memory-deallocate bug in object-replace.
    - Various clustering bug-fixes.
  - DOS
    - Fix segment naming inconsistency during comparison with kernel
mappings.
  - CSM
    - Allow expanding and shrinking CSM containers.
    - Fix seg-fault caused by improperly initialized option-descriptor.
  - Local Disk Manager
    - Minor code restructuring.
  - MD
    - Properly handle arrays that were purposely created with missing
disks.
    - Improved log and user messages.
  - GUI
    - Add a workaround for a GTK timer bug.
  - Installation
    - Check for either /etc/ha.d or /etc/heartbeat when checking for
Linux-HA.
      [Matt Zimmerman]
- New evms_query tool.
- Updated documentation.